Windows . . .

And yes! It took a few minutes, but if I kept hitting refresh eventually the "shutdown" message went away!!! It was the first time I had seen this, but then typically I don't hit refresh . . .

So . . . I get where you are coming from wanting a stable system to backup . . . but this seems like a pretty heavy handed way to get it. It is a pretty shocking thing for a user to see who isn't in the know . . . and if they have the ability, they are likely to cancel on you anyway.

Plus on my "almost nothing" Jenkins the backup took 1 minute or so . . . on our big production Jenkins with all the data and history, it will be interesting to see how long it lasts . . . it could be awhile.

Clearly this is upsetting (to users) enough that it will have to be done at night, but we are a world wide 7/24 operation. I have a smaller community to upset in Hyderabad than I do in San Diego, but it is hard to select a backup time that won't alarm one of them. Plus night time is the time for "big builds" . . . the multi-hour things nobody want to do during the day . . . I am reluctant to take a big chunk of time out of that already busy schedule . . . no easy solutions here.

It might be interesting to see if KK would add a new "mode" . . . shutdown like in that tables/files don't change, but instead of a big red banner saying shutdown, a (say) blue banner saying "backup in progress" . . . something to clue the user into the "real situation".

Thanks for looking into this . . . sorry the solution is "I just didn't understand" . . .

Frank

@frank
can I close this issue now?

i have removed the shutdown state from the backup. only if you restore the system you need the shutdown mode.

Well, there are several folks on this ticket (in fact I am not the creator), but I feel the situation has been explained (and even fixed given backup won't cause the issue only restore will). (Note I looked and saw 1.5 was available, I installed it and verified the problem does not exist in that version.)

With the caveat that I am not the created, it is okay with me if you close the ticket.

THANK YOU!

Frank

fixed in 1.5
additionaly jenkins is not put in the shutdown mode for the backup anymore

Code changed in jenkins
User: tofuatgit
Path:
src/main/java/org/jvnet/hudson/plugins/thinbackup/ThinBackupPeriodicWork.java
http://jenkins-ci.org/commit/thin-backup-plugin/6d363ab67abf2260d8d759d06f690fb564b3e3b9
Log:
fix JENKINS-9117: Jenkins hangs in the shutdown mode after thinBackup is triggered

git-svn-id: https://svn.jenkins-ci.org/trunk/hudson/plugins/thinBackup@39091 71c3de6d-444a-0410-be80-ed276b4c234a