What is the best workflow for moving a few projects from a large to small instance?

[Michael Thome]

Context: we have three JIRA projects and one Confluence site that needs to be migrated to a new account.  Your mental model is as if a business unit is being sold or spun off or something.   The origin account has 100 or more Jira projects, dozens of Confluence sites, and 100s of users.  The target account will much smaller.  Both are cloud instances with different plans.

The closest match that I've been able to find suggests doing a full backup/export of the origin site and then delete what isn't needed, but since we'll be retaining something like 1% of the content and users, that seems extremely inefficient.

Are there better options?

[Fabian Lim]

Hi @Michael Thome

For confluence spades, you can use XML exports to copy the spaces you need.  Then import to the new instance. You may have to check how to import the attachments though.  

For jira projects, we used project configurator app. Use it as a trial for a few weeks until you complete the migration without having to pay.  

Cheers