Need to make a copy of production instance, attachments are too bulky

[Романчик Егор Сергеевич]

I need to create a copy with a separate db, so I tried following this article https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/migrating-to-another-database-148867.html

The problem started on step 2.4 of method 2. The copy needs to be instantiated on a different server, and the attachments folder is over 100G, I tried to make an archive file of it to transfer it to another server, but I ended up running out of storage space.

Is there a way to instantiate a copy without copying all the attachments? Or would it be a better idea to transfer the attachments bit by bit to not hit the storage space limit?

[Radek Dostál]

You don't need to copy attachments, you can just entirely skip them and Jira will run fine. It might complain about "can't find attachment" in the logs when you e.g. open an issue, but that's about it, it won't impact functionality, you can still upload new attachments, etc.