Our backup mechanism is designed to work for the JumpBox as shipped. It will not necessarily cover arbitrary changes you make on the JumpBox and is likely to fail in the event that you change too much in the JumpBox. I should have made that explicitly clear in my instructions above. We only support the JumpBox as shipped and don't support third party plugins, extensions or any modification you may make to the JumpBox on the command line. It wouldn't even make sense to use the JumpBox mechanism since the restore mechanism wouldn't be designed to handle a backup you create.

All of that said, your best bet at this point would be to roll your own backup script. Trac and subversion (as installed on the JumpBox) save all of their state in their project directories. Both provide a hot-copy mechanism to do backups. This will perform the necessary locking and make exact duplicates of the directories specified. A simple bash script that does the svn hotcopies and the trac hotcopies plus a copy of the JumpBox to restore to are all you need.

Check out the trac hotcopy documentation:
http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracBackup
and the SVN backup documentation:
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.4/svn.reposadmin.maint.html#svn.reposad...

Good luck,
Austin

Well - for those who can't wait, you can hack /jumpbox/lib/apputils.rb a little.

See line 116:
AppUtils.dump_subversion("/var/data/projects/svn/project/","#{dumpdir}/svndump")
AppUtils.dump_trac("/var/data/projects/trac/project/", "#{dumpdir}/tracdump")


Now, modify these lines to match your repo location and trac installs:
AppUtils.dump_subversion("/var/data/projects/svn/proj1/","#{dumpdir}/svn_proj1_dump")
AppUtils.dump_subversion("/var/data/projects/svn/proj2/","#{dumpdir}/svn_proj2_dump")
AppUtils.dump_trac("/var/data/projects/trac/proj1/", #{dumpdir}/trac_proj1_dump")
AppUtils.dump_trac("/var/data/projects/trac/proj2/", #{dumpdir}/trac_proj2_dump")


Also, you need to skip down to around line 166 and change this:
extra_files = "/var/data/projects/trac.passwd /var/data/projects/svn/project/hooks/"


to something like this:
extra_files = "/var/data/projects/trac.passwd /var/data/projects/svn/proj1/hooks/ /var/data/projects/svn/proj2/hooks"


:: RESTORATION ::

The restore method (AppUtils.restore_trac_subversion(restore_version)) also needs to be modified. (Line 57 ish)

change this:
AppUtils.restore_subversion("#{appdir}/svn/project", "#{dumpdir}/svndump")
AppUtils.restore_trac("#{appdir}/trac/project", "#{dumpdir}/tracdump")


to something like this:
AppUtils.restore_subversion("#{appdir}/svn/proj1", "#{dumpdir}/svn_proj1_dump")
AppUtils.restore_subversion("#{appdir}/svn/proj2", "#{dumpdir}/svn_proj2_dump")
AppUtils.restore_trac("#{appdir}/trac/proj1", "#{dumpdir}/trac_proj1_dump")
AppUtils.restore_trac("#{appdir}/trac/proj2", "#{dumpdir}/trac_proj2_dump")


I haven't tested a restore yet - will do that now.

Sorry, that additional info is stored in that specific Trac instance, I haven't seen anything that would sync that type of information between instances. If you see anything to the contrary let me know. Also, thanks for pointing out the TracProjectMenu plugin. That looks useful, I will play with it when I get a chance.

Austin

Be kind, I'm kind of new to this and am feeling my way along.

I've followed the instructions for setting up multiple projects, and am having one problem.
When I try to login to the new project I get an

Internal Error - Authentication information not available. Please refer to the installation documentation.

I've tried comparing contents of the two trac.ini files, etc. But I'm a bit confused here.

Any help would be appreciated.