Backup&Restore and AuditLog

[Deleted user]

if I am about to do a backup (zip) in jira software application, should I clean up audit log (ideally nothing in audit log?) first then do the backup, this way there won't be issues related to some info in entities.xml, such as

<AuditChangedValue id="12212298" logId="11443688" name="Username" deltaTo="gernst"/>

I have the impression that backing up also included audit log, true ?  

the data would be the focus to bakcup and restore,  not the other system tracking information,  right ? 

[Andy Heinzer]

I don't really see the need to clear that audit log for the sake of creating a backup.   The information in that section directly pertains to setting changes in Jira.  But I do not understand what sort of issues could be caused by that data being there.

Yes when you create a database backup or an XML backup in Jira that audit data is also being included in the backup.

However this data is only changes to Jira, such as permission changes, group membership changes, workflow changes, custom field creation, etc.  This audit log does not actually store any data specific to tracking the host OS. 

Perhaps you could clear these tables in the database, but I can't really see the need to do so.