Does "Disaster recovery" for Jira server needs a separate license?

[Niveditha]

Hi Team,

We have Jira server license and recently upgraded to 8.4.3 version. We would like to set up "Disaster recovery" for our instance.

Do we need any separate license for "Disaster recovery" configuration?

(or)

Please provide the information on configuring disaster recovery for Jira server using existing license for the set up.

Thanks.

Regards,
Niveditha

[Mikael Sandberg · Accepted solution]

If you are looking to use a cold standby strategy for your disaster recovery you can use your existing license, since you only have one live system up at the time. Please note that this is not supported by Atlassian. At my previous company we used VMs and Veeam which allows you to restore the system as is without having to have a separate system up and running. When we tested this on Confluence we could restore the system within the hour. 

The only disaster recovery system supported by Atlassian is to use Data Center.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Actually, not quite.

If you have a 25+ Server licence, you have access to a "developer" licence, which you can use to stand up several non-production instances.  Stealing Atlassian's own text liberally (so you don't have to visit https://www.atlassian.com/licensing/purchase-licensing#pricing-discounts to get the basics ):

"Developer licenses are available to existing commercial and academic server license holders (not available for cloud or server Starter products) who wish to deploy non-production installations for use in testing and development of the Atlassian software (e.g. version upgrades, customizations to the software, etc) that should not be done on a live production instance.

Developer licenses can also be used for non-production installations of the software deployed on a cold standby server."

This means you don't need to think about moving production licences around during DR.  Use the developer licence on the cold standby and have one less thing to worry about during a disaster.

[Niveditha]

Thank you Nic, for the detailed information.

[Niveditha]

Looks like, it is a separate license.

Quote for "Data center" starting from 500 users in Jira software. What about Jira software 250 user tier?

Thanks.

[Mikael Sandberg]

Correct, the lowest number of users when using Data Center is 500, you cannot go lower than that.

[Niveditha]

Thank you Mikael for the quick response!

Just want to confirm, Jira "Data center" would need a separate license?

Or is it included in the server license?

Thanks!

[Mikael Sandberg]

Correct, Data Center is a separate license.