Is there a way to override the build directory for each plan in Bamboo?

[Dan Freise]

I do not want all of my plans to build in one monolithic file system; in other CI tools, I specify the build directory for each job/plan, and spread my builds out across different filers. This also allows a build to use a less expensive 'update' rather than a full checkout from the source repository if it switches from one remote agent to another between builds. How does one do this with Bamboo? I can't find any way to keep it from using one huge directory (per agent, at least) for doing all the builds?

[Przemek Bruski]

If you want to spread build directories across filesystems, you can do it with symlinks. If you want to share build directories between agents, remember to turn off concurrent builds.

[Dan Freise]

OK; say I want ProjectA and ProjectB to be on separate file systems; how would I create these symlinks? So far, all I see is that each *job* is getting a separate directory directly under the xml_data/build-dir; IE:

xml_data/build-dir/PROJA-PLANA-JOB1

It would make much more sense if there were a subdirectory for each project, then the plans and jobs lived in there. Is there such an option that I am missing? Or are you saying I need to create a symbolic link for every single *job* in each project?

[Przemek Bruski]

Yes, that's what I'm saying - there's no hierarchy, you need to symlink each job separately.

Also, I think this won't work if you do clean builds or there are problems with your checkouts - the symlink will be erased and a new directory put in its place.