The Bitbucket Server backup directory cannot be located in Bitbucket Server home
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*Except Fisheye and Crucible
Symptoms
After executing the backup client, it fails with the exception below:
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2014-09-08 13:27:10,195 INFO Initializing
2014-09-08 13:27:10,686 ERROR The application could not be started. An unexpected error prevented the Spring
ApplicationContext from being created. Details of the error follow.
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'backupHome' defined in class path resource [META-INF/spring/common-spring.xml]: Instantiation of bean failed; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.BeanInstantiationException: Could not instantiate bean class [com.atlassian.bitbucket.internal.backup.client.layout.DefaultBackupHome]: Constructor threw exception; nested exception is com.atlassian.bitbucket.internal.backup.client.BackupException: The Bitbucket Server backup directory (/opt/atlassian/bitbucket-home) cannot be located in Bitbucket Server home (/opt/atlassian/bitbucket-home). Please change the backup directory location and retry.
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.ConstructorResolver.autowireConstructor(ConstructorResolver.java:278) ~[spring-beans-4.0.5.RELEASE.jar:4.0.5.RELEASE]
at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.autowireConstructor(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1114) ~[spring-beans-4.0.5.RELEASE.jar:4.0.5.RELEASE]
... 12 more frames available in the log fileCause
The configured backup.home directory is located under the bitbucket.home directory.
Resolution
Create the backup.home in a completely separate directory. For example, you can use /opt/atlassian/bitbucket-backup instead.
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