How To: Clone or back up pipelines or projects

This article describes how to back up your pipelines or projects locally.

How to

Prerequisite

Install the Codefresh CLI.

Commands

Back up the pipeline

codefresh get pip "<pipeline_name>" -o yaml >  <pipeline_backup_file>  

where:

• "<pipeline_name>" is the name of the pipeline to back up.
• <pipeline_backup_file> is the name of the file to which to save the backed up pipeline.

Export protected variables

codefresh get pip "pipeline_name" --decrypt-variables -o yaml >  pipeline_backup_file

Recreate a pipeline from a backup file

codefresh replace -f pipeline_backup_file