Data migration between instances using out of the box tools

[Sanil Panicker]

Hi,

We completed our Install and configurations of JIRA software in our Development server. Now we would like to move the entire Configurations and Data to our Newly installed Stage server. We do not have any additional add-ons tool, could you please help and let me know can I copy the database from Dev and restore it to Stage? What and how can we do the migration from Dev to stage, we need the whole configurations and data as is from dev.

We have our application on-premises and does not include data center.

[Alexey Matveev]

Hello,

If you want to migrate configuration with all data then you can use backup/restore functionality. You can read more here:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver071/backing-up-data-802592964.html

If you want to migrate only configuration, you can migrate some of the database tables in the Jira instance database. You have to figure out yourself, which tables to migrate. I ve seen once such a migration, but I prefer not to use it, because it is not stable and prone to errors.

[Matt Doar]

Agreed, I do not recommend doing database-level migration. Check out the products from Botron and Adaptavist for migrating just configurations. Or use a database backup and restore if you want to migrate your date as well.

[Matt Doar]

The backup and restore overwrites any data in the target system though

[Sanil Panicker]

Hi Alexey,

Thanks for the info, we used backup/restore functionality to migrate data. Since all were new instances where we had to migrate data so we were ok with replacing existing data.

Thanks,

Sanil.