What happens if someone accidentally deletes important Jenkins configurations? Although this can be avoided using stringent user permissions that we will see in the User Administration section, imagine a situation where someone working on the Jenkins configuration wants to restore to a previous stable Jenkins configuration.
From what we have learned so far, we know that the entire Jenkins configuration is stored under the Jenkins home directory. It is C:\jenkins (Windows), /var/jenkins_home (Apache Tomcat), /var/lib/jenkins (Linux). In the following section, we will learn how to back up and restore the Jenkins configuration using a plugin, the Periodic Backup plugin.
