Less painful way to migrate to Cloud?

[autonomatt]

Hi,

We have two hosted Jira instances with a good few years of issue history. We'd really like to move to Atlassian Cloud, which we've already setup.

As I understand it, we need to be on the latest version of Jira before we migrate to Cloud. Now we've attempted to upgrade our 6.4.4 Jira instance a few times and every time it ends up being at least a day out of our work schedule and never seems to work.

It seems such a roadblock to have to upgrade to the latest version before migrating issues to Cloud. Wondering if there is a less time-consuming way of doing this. We really don't want to lose all the issues on projects, because they come in really handy at times.

Thanks,

Matt

[Mirek]

Hi @autonomatt - As I mentioned here (https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-Software-questions/Migrate-JIRA-project-from-one-server-to-another/qaq-p/891341#M32986) migration in theory is done in 3 simple steps...

In practice when you start doing this you see many problems that you need to bypass.. old version that cannot be upgraded, plugins that are not on cloud, customizations, etc. ..

There is not 'easy' and 'unique' way yo migrate.. You just need to set some goals that you want to achieve and try. Just try migrating without upgrading, then try migrating only issues using CSV (without history) .. then if that would not be good .. try use another solution..

Overall please ask yourself aa question. Do you really need to migrate all data, or you can work for some time on both JIRAs and connect them somehow on a single view (using plugins like Watchtower), or lock server JIRA for new tickets and make it slowly "die" naturally..

It all depends what is your goal and what you want to have after migration, how much time and resources you have for this activity.

One thing is true that currently there is no migration to cloud without giving up on something.