How do people retain bamboo builds which have gone into production, without them being caught up in the bamboo retention policy to make effective use of disk capacity on the bamboo server?

Question

When using the global expiry policy in bamboo to make effective use of storage capacity on the bamboo server. We would use labels to indicate a build to be preserved. We have a concern that the labels however could be deleted without our prior knowledge, leading to a build which is in production being expired and removed.

Has anyone found a way to restrict deletion of labels once applied to perhaps a group of administrators to mitigate the risk of build being expired incorrectly due to deleted labels?

Many Thanks

Bedelia Wolvert · Answer

Thanks Alexey,

My concern is that the label could potentially at a later date be deleted accidentally or maliciously.

Then when the expiry policy executes it's rules the build will be expired as it no longer has the label.

Has anyone found a way to mitigate this risk?

Alexey Chystoprudov · Answer

Use global expiry - https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/BAMBOO/Configuring+global+expiry

Bedelia Wolvert · Answer

We do use deployment projects, but I'm unsure how you can configure the expiry to skip such builds without using labels, can you elaborate please Alexey?