tar bamboo-home folder

[Reneesh Kottakkalathil]

We're planning to upgrade Bamboo. One of the pre-requisite is to take a backup of the bamboo-home directory. However, the bamboo-home directory is so huge that tar will take longer and we don't have enough space for the tar backup. I'm looking for advise on how do you all manage this situation when performing an upgrade. 

[Ronald Bolante]

Hi @Reneesh Kottakkalathil ,

You can create a backup of or archive ALL folders except the following:

• artifacts
• export (if it exists)
• import (if it exists)
• logs

You're going to perform an upgrade (and not a migration, for example) and the artifacts folder will still be there even if the upgrade fails. This does not mean you can delete that folder. You will need it in case you need to roll-back the upgrade.

I learned this from one of the Atlassian Support guys.

Hope that helps.

[Reneesh Kottakkalathil]

Hi Ronald,

Thanks for the inputs. Could you please send me the steps in the event of a rollback?

[Ronald Bolante]

Hi @Reneesh Kottakkalathil ,

No worries, more than happy to share.

I think before I send you the steps I need to give the upgrade steps first to be clear about what needs to be done.

Upgrade steps:

1. Create support zip
2. Upgrade plugins that need upgrading
3. Stop Bamboo service
4. Create a backup of all folders except:
   • artifacts
   • export
   • import
   • logs
5. Create a DB backup
6. Do the Bamboo upgrade
7. Start Bamboo service
8. Upgrade plugins that need upgrading
9. Conduct technical PIV

Rollback plan:

1. Stop Bamboo service
2. Restore the DB backup
3. Point the symlink to old version
4. Start Bamboo service

Hope this helps

[Reneesh Kottakkalathil]

Thanks for the detailed steps. Don't we have to rollback the bamboo-home folder that we backed up(before upgrade) and copy back the folders(artifact, export,..)that we excluded?

[Ronald Bolante]

Hi @Reneesh Kottakkalathil ,

Thank you for pointing that out.  Yes, you are right how can I miss that.

Here is the updated rollback plan.

Rollback plan:

1. Stop Bamboo service
2. Restore the DB backup
3. Re-point the symlink to old version (bamboo-install)
4. Restore backup of bamboo-home (Upgrade step #4)
5. Start Bamboo service

I need to emphasise as well that I haven't had any chance of testing a rollback.  This is a recommendation from Atlassian Support.  I will get back to you once I get the chance to test it.