Migrate JIRA to a new server while keeping same database

[Alex Zuroff]

We need to migrate our JIRA application server (version 7.4.2) to a new box in a different data center, but keep using the same database (Oracle 11g).  All the migration guides I've seen talk about migrating the database server along with the app server, which is not what we want.

Is there a migration guide that I'm missing that covers this scenario?  If not, what would be the safest approach to do this?

[Gaston Valente · Accepted solution]

Alex,

moving jira app directory and data directory to the new server should work.

what i usually do is:

1.  Copy the directories
2. point to the db, in your case no change is needed
3. setup the users to run jira
4. setup the permissions for the directories
5. optionally setup the service
6. start jira and remember to update email config if it’s necessary 

then you can follow the guides to setup jira as a service

[Alex Zuroff]

That's pretty much what we did - used rsync to move everything from the old server to the new server - we had the same named user on both servers, so rsync was able to copy the ownership and permissions over.

[Gaston Valente]

Great! how did it work?