External Storage Options for JIRA Attachments

Question

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 · Answer

In Linux, use the ln command. Move your attachments folder to your external storage and then create a symbolic link in the /data/ folder to where you've moved your attachments: $ cd /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

Pratik_weo8ni · Answer

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

Gareth Cantrell · Answer

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.