Moving JIRA and Confluence Server to new hardware

[jyang825]

I have been running JIRA and Confluence Server on my laptop for personal use. Now our team is expanding and I am moving them to a server in the office. I plan to the do the move this way:

• Back up both JIRA and Confluence data
• Reinstall JIRA and Confluence Server on the new machine with the current licenses
• Set up PostgreSQL 10 (I know only 9.6 is officially supported but 10 is reported to work; I currently use the default H2 database)
• Restore JIRA and Confluence data

Does this process work? Any better ideas?

Thanks!

[Tom Lister · Accepted solution]

Hi @jyang825

your process is essentially correct. There is a more detailed article on the approach here

https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver071/migrating-jira-applications-to-another-server-802592269.html

Ensure your server and plugin versions are compatible. If you’re planning a Jira upgrade, do it separately before or after migration.

[jyang825]

Thank you, Tom!