Is there (an automated) way to backup Hudson CI files?

Question

Here at my company we have three Hudson CI servers with 100+ jobs configured. We are looking for an automated way to periodically backup job configurations and

Answer 1

Besides the Backup plugin there is also the thinBackup plugin to backup only the configuration files (available for Hudson or Jenkins)

I personally like to do all system backups via one system that is usually a shell script in the end. I wrote a Jenkins specific script for that (works for Hudson too). See https://bitbucket.org/toomasr/jenkins-stuff/src for more information.