Refresh Stash sandbox?

[Timothy Harris]

I have a sandbox environment for Stash. I am wondering what the easiest way to refresh it from our production environment is?

In JIRA I can just do an XML dump and import it into the Sandbox instance. Nice an easy, just have to update application links, license, etc.

The stash version is 3.3.

[Balázs Szakmáry]

Read this page about migrating Stash instances. You can use some subset of these steps to do what you want.

[Timothy Harris]

To be honest, I find this documentation a bit confusing. The way I read it, please correct me if I am wrong, is that the sections that pertains to me is section 2 "Migrating Stash Data to a different machine". The database for the Sandbox is an external MySQL db, which is the same for production just on a different MySQL server. So I think I have to do the following. * Do a mysqldump of the *production* database. * Backup the *production* HOME directory(tar and zip). This is "/var/atlassian/application-data/stash" in my case. * Shut down stash on the *sandbox* server. * Do a mysqldump on the database for the *sandbox*. Just in case. * Backup the *sandbox* stash HOME directory(tar and zip). Just in case. * Restore the *production* mysqldump file to the *sandbox* database. * Move/rename the *sandbox* HOME directory. * Extract the *production* HOME directory to the *sandbox* HOME directory. * Restart stash on *sandbox*. Seems all a bit complex :-( I think it could be made simpler if Stash provided an export/import functionality like JIRA for the database.

[Balázs Szakmáry]

Yes, this seems about correct. I agree that it could be simpler. (Most people don't do this too often.)

[Timothy Harris]

Well there is one more VERY important step to add. Doing it the way I described above you need to make sure you update the stash-config.properties file and change the JDBC connection properties as they point to PRODUCTION database.