Moving Jira Home Directory from C to D

[zalim786]

Hi guys,

our Jira Installation and Home directory is location in C:, which is a problem, its taking more

and more space everyday, so now we have a installed a new drive D: and I want to move

Application Data from C to D.

Thats how it looks right now.

C:\Program Files\Atlassian\Application Data\JIRA

I want to move Application Data folder to D:

What is the best and riskfree method of doing that? I have read some article where people talk about breaking some sorts of permissions.

I want step by step guide to do it properly.

Best Regards

Zali

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

Yes, you do need to be careful with permissions, ideally you should use a copy that preserves them identically.

• Stop Jira
• Copy the directory and its contents to the new place (this is keeping a backup in case things go wrong)
• Set the ownership and permissions to the same as the old one if the copy process changes them
• Rename the old directory (to ensure the new one is in use when you restart)
• Edit the <Jira install>/atlassian-jira/WEB-INF/classes/jira-application.properties
• Restart Jira and check everything is working
• If it is, then delete the old renamed directory

[zalim786]

hey,

thanks for a quick reply,

what permissions are you talking about here? you mean Folder permissions?

Regards

Zali

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Yes, there's no other permissions I could be talking about in there.

[zalim786]

ok thanks, do I also need to stop DB?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

No, the database is separate.

[Shanmuka]

Hi @Nic Brough -Adaptavist- 

Is it possible to move home directory to another server in linux ?

Thanks,

Shanmuka 

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

No.  Well, partly.

Some of the home directory for a Jira server can be put on a shared file system (I assume that's what you mean by "move directory to another server), but a good chunk of it is not - you can destroy a Jira's performance and corrupt the index by putting things like the index, temporary files and caches on shared storage.

[Shanmuka]

Thanks for the reply @Nic Brough -Adaptavist- 

So except those you mentioned (Index, temporary files, caches) we can put rest of the things  in shared storage like NAS

i.e. Data, Plugins, logos, import, export, log 

Thanks,

Shanmuka