External Storage Options for JIRA Attachments

[Pradeep Kumar]

We are having a production JIRA with issues upto 2 lacs. The attachment directory specifically is consuming lot of disk space, hence we are planning to move our production JIRA_HOME directory to external location.

Can someone please help me the best approach.

[Gareth Cantrell]

It is not advisable to move your entire JIRA_HOME onto external storage as this may have a noticeable performance impact on your Jira instance.

To store your attachments on external storage, I would recommend to move only the attachments folder and then create a symbolic link from the JIRA_HOME to where you have moved the attachments.

[Pratik]

and how do we create symbolic link? any example or command syntax?
I am using JIRA 8.2.4

[Gareth Cantrell]

In Linux, use the ln command.

Move your attachments folder to your external storage and then create a symbolic link in the <JIRA_HOME>/data/ folder to where you've moved your attachments:

$ cd <JIRA_HOME>/data
$ ln -sf /path/to/attachments attachments
$ ls -l
total 0
lrwxr-xr-x  2  jira jira  11B 2 Aug 10:18 attachments -> /path/to/attachmments
drwxr-x--- 41  jira jira 1312 2 Aug 10:26 avatars