Hosting data (avatars, attachments, etc.) in $JIRA_HOME on different server

[Victor Peters]

Hi,

This is my first post in the Atlassian Community, although I've been working with Crowd, JIRA, Bitbucket (Stash) and Confluence for about three years now.

My work consists of technical support for our organisation. As such I'm also responsible for creating RPM  packages of the software so they can be installed on our RHEL7 servers.

We have all applications running on their own (virtual) server. The (PostgreSQL) database of each application is hosted on a seperate server, which also acts as a proxy.

We'd like to host the data inside the applications 'home' directory on the same server where the database is hosted. Either by moving the database of each application to the server on which the application is running. Or by moving the data in all applications' 'home' directory to the database server.

I haven't been able to find any information on how to do the latter. So currently I'm working on migrating the databases to the application servers.

Does anyone have some information or knowledge about hosting the applications data, normally stored in the application 'home' directory, on a different server than where the application itself is residing on?
Or is this only possible if we upgraded to the data center versions of the applications?

[Krisztian Kovacs]

Hi @Victor Peters,

you can do that if you can mount the directory/partition/drive in your system, just make sure that the connection would never be interrupted.

the home folder's location can be changed: https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver073/setting-your-jira-application-home-directory-861253889.html

The DC version of Jira only differs in having nodes but basically all the nodes are Jira server instances connected to a load balancer.

I hope this helps.