I saw a lot of ZIP file in my Jira Home directory – under Export directory …

…. and we now explain what is it and how manage it.

A little bit of history

After setup, both Jira and Confluence are configured to perform a XML backup every day You can find this in Administrative section. My suggestion is: disable both and configure a strategy of backup for both Confluence and Jira.

Confluence

On confluence go to Administration section.  Select Services , as shown in figure:

select Scheduled Jobs under ADMINISTRATION

than you can see the Back Up Confluence job.

The result of this job is create a backup file in standard directory:

 

Jira

Same procedure. Go to Administrative section, as show in figure:

Go to Services entry in ADVANCED

check if exist the entry Backup Service, as show in figure:

Entry is the a scheduled job that create a ZIP backup file in Default Directory (See following figure)

Reference

Take a look at this Page for more information.