Where does Jenkins store configuration files for the jobs it runs?

Question

I\'m adding continuous integration to an EC2 project at work using Jenkins. The Jenkins machine itself is kept on an EC2 machine - one that might need to be taken offline an

Answer 1

On Linux one can find the home directory of Jenkins looking for a file, that Jenkins' home contains, e.g.:

$ find / -name "config.xml" | grep "jenkins"
/var/lib/jenkins/config.xml