Migrating a project from Atlassian jira studio to local hosted jira

[Norman Hills]

Hi,

It looks like I'm going to have to get a couple of projects from an Atlassian jira studio instance of jira into my locally hosted one - have any of you had experience with this? was it reasonably straightforward? It looks like I need to get hold of a backup from the jira studio version and use the Project Import utility within my copy of Jira.

NB. I'm told that the projects i will be importing aren't using any custom fields or workflows (just using the default jira one)

Any/All advice gratefully received.

Cheers

Norman

[Andrew Frayling · Accepted solution]

Hi Norman,

I've done this for a few customers and everything should be straightforward as long as the JIRA versions are the same. Just contact Atlassian support to get the backups from JIRA studio and import these into your local JIRA.

If your local version is a higher version than Studio then install a temporary local copy that is the same version as Studio using an eval or developer license, import into that, upgrade that to the version that you want to import into and then do a second export from your upgraded temporary install and import that into your local JIRA.

Hope that makes sense?

Andrew.

[Norman Hills]

hi Andrew,

Thanks for the quick reply - sounds a bit of a pain, still, I guess I have no choice :-(

The Studio version is v4.3.4#620-r152668

My local version isv4.4.3#663-r165197

So that's a backup, install temp version, import, upgrade temp version, backup -> import into current version.

I wonder if it's possible for them to have made it any more fiddly :-)

Cheers

Norman

[Andrew Frayling]

Hi Norman,

Yes, the steps you list are correct. It is a bit of a pain having to do the intermediate step, but it should be pretty straightforward as your existing Studio implementation doesn't have any custom fields or workflows.

If it helps, full documentation is available at http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA043/Restoring+a+Project+from+Backup and
http://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA043/Splitting+a+JIRA+instance (if you're importing into a new empty JIRA, the manual way is the recommended way of doing it).

Hope it all goes well, but if you run into any problems just post here and I'll try to help.

Andrew.

[Al Sko]

if all you need is transferring tasks, then you can use Task Adapter: it can transfer tasks between two Jira instances.