changing backup location

[John W]

Is there any way in JIRA Server of setting a custom location for backups. As default it's 

/var/atlassian/application-data/jira/export

Are there also any options that can remove any files after a set amount of time, e.g. a week, to stop the drive filling up?

Failing this, is it safe to rely entirely on database backups and a filesystem backup for the JIRA server. i.e. do I actually need these XML backups on a production system>

Many thanks,

John

[Gary Pasquale · Accepted solution]

Hi John,

There is no way within the application to change the default location for backups.

There is no option within JIRA to remove files after a set time, although I would use a scheduled script at the server level that could perform that housekeeping task.

For production use, it is strongly recommended that for regular backups, you use native database backup tools instead of Jira's XML backup service.

We run our production system (11k + users and 1.2m issues) without using the XML backup facility.

XML backups are useful when migrating instances or projects. Or for creating dev and test instances from production. We run a manual XML backup as and when we need it.

Regards,

Gary

[Caio Nóbrega]

Hi Gary,

do you know if there is there a config file where this info is stored?

My current installation is showing that backups are being stored in "/data/atljira/sharedhome /export", there is a space in that "sharedhome " piece and it's causing me trouble at the server level.

Thanks in advance.

Caio

[Devesh Chanchlani]

The only quick way to solve this problem could be to either create a symlink "/var/atlassian/application-data/jira/export" pointing to the location of interest. (need to be tried)

The second option would be to write a cron-job which follows the scheduled JIRA backup automation job, and copies the files/folders of interest to desired location.

And both the approaches are sad, its hard to believe the stuff is not configurable.