YouTrack uses its own in-process database. By default, data files are saved to the <youtrack_home>/data directory.
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Database Accessibility
Please ensure that database files are accessible from within YouTrack!
The user account that runs the YouTrack service should always have permission to create, modify, and read database files.
Access to database files over the network is prohibited because YouTrack cannot guarantee the durability of your data when accessed in this way. Specifically, you must not use NFS to store the YouTrack database.
The default directory where YouTrack stores data contains the following subdirectories:
Name
Description
youtrack
Contains the YouTrack database
hub
Contains the database for the Hub service, if built-in Hub has ever been used for the YouTrack instance
internal
May contain other internal product data
When you copy your existing database to the new location, make sure the new location uses the same folder structure that is shown here.
As YouTrack service runs inside a Docker container, you can change only the location of the database on the hosted machine. In this case you need to move the database to a new location, and then specify the new path as parameter of the docker run command.
Move the content of the current database directory (data) to the new directory.
Provide the user 13001:13001 that runs the YouTrack service inside the container with access permissions to the new database directory. For details, see Create and Configure Directories.
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If you run the docker container in a macOS environment, the new database directory is automatically accessible to the user who starts the container. Skip this step and continue.
Run the Docker container with the new path to the database on the hosting machine:
docker run -it--name<youtrack-server-instance>\-v<path to new data directory>:/opt/youtrack/data \-v<path to conf directory>:/opt/youtrack/conf \-v<path to logs directory>:/opt/youtrack/logs \-v<path to backups directory>:/opt/youtrack/backups \-p<port on host>:8080 \
jetbrains/youtrack:<version>
YouTrack service starts with the data directory inside the container (/opt/youtrack/data) mapped to the new database location on the hosting machine.
Use the same procedure to change the location of the conf, logs, backups, and/or temp directories.