Hudson: Copy artifact from master to slave fails

Question

Is it possible to use the 'copy artifact' plugin to copy an artifact from a job that ran on master to a downstream job that runs on a slave node?

I'm getting an error on the slave that says: hudson.util.IOException2: hudson.util.IOException2: Failed to extract /srv/hudson/jobs/myproject/builds/2011-04-29_10-28-54/archive/myartifact.foo

Obviously that path is not valid, as it points to the artifact folder on master.

Am I missing something or is this just not possible?

Answer 1

Yes, it is possible. You can use the Copy Artifact Plugin to copy any artifact to the slave.

For a first test I recommend to

• set up a job just with one 'Copy artifacts from another project' step
• set the 'Project name' to a job with your artifact
• set 'Which build' to 'Last successful build' (ensure there is one)
• keep the 'Artifacts to copy' and 'Target directory' empty to copy all artifacts to the slave workspace directory