Migrate multi hosted Jira to single hosted Cloud

[Harish Thakur (Atria)]

We are looking to migrate our on-premise Jira server + Cloud hosted instances into a single Cloud hosted instance and I am keen to know to best approach to migrate multiple instances of Jira into a single could instance.

thanks in Advance

Harish

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Possibly, it depends on what you're migrating, how much and if you're willing to accept the way JCMA will migrate config.

[Brendan Byers]

Hello Nic,

For this scenario is merging and then migrating still the recommended process with the Jira Cloud Migration Assistant that's now available?

Thank you

[Pepe Marañón]

Hi Harish,

I would recommend you use Project Configurator to simplify and save many hours of work in the merging process. Additionally, a good guide on best practices for merging instances is available at:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver072/merging-jira-instances-935389845.html

https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver072/migrating-projects-to-another-jira-instance-933088184.html

Cheers

[Harish Thakur (Atria)]

Hello Nic, 

thanks for you response- I realize that now. Looks like there are restrictions in merging two different jira system with-in cloud and that we need to first migrate all our instances into Jira Server ( on premise ) and consolidate them before migrating it into a final cloud instance.

looks like there a no tools available to automate this process additionally migrating plug-in is another complex task on its own.

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Merging and migrating are two separate activities.

You really should merge all your instances together before you move to Cloud though.  A merge on Cloud is "stop using Jira, download the backup, restore it on a server install, merge in what we need to merge, export that, import it into Cloud, destroying the old data".