Is it possible to change TeamCity's artifacts path

Question

The default path for teamcity artifacts is

C:\#User#\.BuildServer\system\artifacts

How can i change it to

d:\TeamCity\Artifacts

Thanks

Cooperstein

Answer 1

For me the default is D:\BuildServer\system\artifacts

Yes you can, set the TEAMCITY_DATA_PATH environment variable.

See here: http://www.jetbrains.net/confluence/display/TCD4/TeamCity+Data+Directory

By default, the is placed in the user's home directory (e.g. it is $HOME/.BuildServer under Linux and C:\Documents and Settings\.BuildServer) under Windows. Alternatively, you can define this directory in one of the following ways:

1. As a Tomcat system property teamcity.data.path (see System Properties for Running the Server)
2. In the TEAMCITY_DATA_PATH environment variable (this will be used if the teamcity.data.path JVM system property is not found)

Ugric

Thanks this led me onto the right track. To be specific run "c:\TeamCity\bin\tomcat6w.exe //ES//TeamCity" then change the "-Dteamcity.data.path" under the Java tab – Cooperstein

That's for setting the value from the command line, you can also set your environment variables from the System Properties panel (System in the Control Panel, select Advanced in Windows 7 - not sure about windows XP + Vista) go to the Advanced Tab and see the button at the bottom Environment Variables. In here you can set a new variable called TEAMCITY_DATA_PATH.. – Ugric

As it also says in the docs: If you run TeamCity as Windows service installed via standard procedure from the Windows executable file, you will need to modify the teamcity.data.path Tomcat JVM property via @Anton P's instructions. Modifying the TEAMCITY_DATA_PATH environment variable will not work in this case. – Sverige

For those hunting, i set this in my runall.sh export TEAMCITY_DATA_PATH="/media/storage/teamcity/" – Impetigo

@Ugric But TEAMCITY_DATA_PATH used with whole server inculding configs etc. How can be changed anly "artifacts storage"? – Verdha

Same question as setevoy - what if you only want to relocate the artifacts? In my case the artifacts are huge and I want to move them to a SAN, but keep the config etc local. – Ximenes