Wanting to migrate bitbucket repositories between a Bitbucket Server and DC instance

[colin mcdermott]

We are trying to consolidate 2x bitbucket instances, 1x is a server instance the other is Data Center 

(this is because on Jira Cloud, we can only have one application tunnel from Jira Cloud to bitbucket). 

Naturally we can git clone existing repositories, create an empty but unique new repository on the DC instance and push our code there. 

However we want to preserve PR history and pull requests. Is there an easy/better way to do this? 

[Evan Slaughter · Accepted solution]

Hey Colin!

So the way you'd want to knock this out would probably be through the import/export feature we have here:

• https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucketserver/export-and-import-projects-and-repositories-957497834.html

That functionality is the easiest way to get two Bitbucket instances' data carried over from one instance to another. I think this functionality was something exclusive to Data Center and not available on Server back when both were supported, and so I'm not 100% sure if it would be immediately available on your Server instance.

• If you find you can't utilize the export on the Server instance: assuming you're planning to use the existing DC instance moving forward, what you could actually do is generate an evaluation license for Bitbucket Data Center to plug into the Bitbucket Server instance, which should unlock this functionality and let you successfully export what you'll need so you can import it into the new one.

Hope this helps!