Does JCMA support migration of JIRA Server projects into an existing Jira Cloud Instance ?

[Bhushan Marathe]

We want to migrate a subset of users and projects from Jira server to an existing Jira Cloud instance. The existing jira cloud instance already has other operational projects running in production.
Is this possible using the JCMA? Will it override the data or merge it with existing data.

For example, if Cloud has "Epic " as an issue type, will the epic issue type merge with the epic issue from server instance after migration using JCMA?

We want to migrate date from server to cloud without touching or modifying any existing data /projects which are existing in Jira Cloud. 

[carlosughini · Accepted solution]

Hi @Bhushan Marathe ,

Hope you are having a good day!

That's a good question. When you use JCMA it will migrate the entire data and merge the existing issue types.

So if you are migrating Epic, Story and Test, but your target instance has only Epic and Story, it will merge Epic and Story - so it won't create a new issue type - and then it will create a new issue type for Test.

Hope that it helps.

Kind regards,

Carlos

[Dave Mathijs · Accepted solution]

@Bhushan Marathe Yes, this is possible as long as there are no duplicate project keys.

[Bhushan Marathe]

Thankyou @Dave Mathijs , and do you know how it handles use cases like the example mentioned below:

If Cloud site has "Epic " as an issue type, will the epic issue type merge with the epic issue from server instance OR additional issue type of Epic (duplicate) will be created after migration using JCMA?

[Dave Mathijs]

No duplicates will be created, only new values will be created.