Summary

The purpose of this page explains ways to archive Bamboo project, plans or deployment project.

Environment

This is applicable for all Bamboo versions

Solution

Unfortunately, at this moment Bamboo doesn't have any built-in ways of archiving old projects, build results, plans, artifact etc. However, one can consider disabling or deleting your unused plans and projects.

In case you need to use your plans and its configuration at a later stage, then you might think of taking backup of your plan's configuration as Bamboo specs before deleting and using it later.

Specs doesn’t take logs, artifacts, results into account it is only about the configuration .For the logs, artifcats and results you could also just create a zip file of the corresponding folders(artifacts,logs ) on disk and store them away .However please keep in mind you will not be able to restore results using Specs at a later date.So you can either take a full backup of Bamboo folders or just the configuration of the plan or deployment project using Specs.

You could also just create a zip file of the corresponding project folders on disk and store them away - after that you could run the expiry of individual plans which are part of the project to have Bamboo delete the artifacts on disk.

There is a feature request already in place to  make the use of personal filters in the build dashboard tab. Extend filter to exclude projects and plans with a defined label "Not in use".Bamboo could come with a predefined, exclusive label "Not in use", that one can use to label expired projects and plans and that one can select in the filter option to exclude projects and plans from being shown in the regular list. However you need to make sure that  plan expiry is not enabled for these projects and plans.