Can backups be set to overwrite?

[Jon Alderson]

I have a client running Jira version 5.1.4. The other week their webserver hosting Jira / Confluence went down due to a diskspace issue. It was determined that the backups of Jira were consuming a large amount of space as they were not setup to over-write existing backups after XX amount of days. Is there a way to set this up so that they will not run out of drivespace again? Any help is greatly appreciated,

Jon

[Renjith Pillai]

Actually you can.

Assuming you are doing a daily backup:

• If you need to store just for a week, use E
• If you need to store for a month, use d
• If you need to store for a year, use D

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

interesting, haven't seen this before. Where do we give this option?

[Renjith Pillai]

In services for configuring the automatic backups, if you click edit you get an edit box which accepts custom date formats. Basically it's a tweak using the Java SimpleDateFormat

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

Awesome. One more "awesome" to make it more than 10 chars!

[Jon Alderson]

So I logged into the Jira admin console and simply put in a "e" for the date format, was this the correct way to make the change to the backup retention period?

[Renjith Pillai]

Upper case E for keeping a week's backup

[Ileanell Cabrera]

So it will be E-yyyy-MMM-dd-HHmm?

[Jeffery Bennett]

The answer is that you would simply enter 'E'. However, JIRA doesn't appear overwrite automatic backups with the same filename. At least not in my Linux install.

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

There is no option in JIRA using which you can overwrite backups because it uses timestamp in its name. You might want to write a cron job or something to monitor the space or just delete old backups periodically.