Seeking recommendation for reducing nightly Bamboo backup downtime

Question

Hello:

We use the Bamboo nightly backup routine. It runs for several hours and adversely impacts users from other timezones.

Does anyone have any ideas for how to reduce the downtime? Is there anything we can cleanup on the disk or possibly write our own backup script to capture a smaller set of items?

-Thanks

Krystian Brazulewicz · Answer

If you're willing to make your DB available for analysis then please contact our support, make sure you attach Bamboo logs that will cover backup activity. If your DB dump is exceeding allowed attachment size, Support team will instruct you to upload it to our file service.

Matt Shelton · Answer

Ignoring artifacts in the backup still ends us up with a backup nearing 2 hours.

Matt Shelton · Answer

The problem with this is that we'd need to ensure no builds are running when it is shut down. Only bamboo can tell us that.