Change workflow scheme need to take backup

[Neena Goyal]

Hi,

I have created a new workflow scheme and want to replace with the exsiting workflow schdme. Let me know how can i take the backup so to ensure if anything goes wrong i can restore the previous data.

[SPHIOR]

Necro-posting since this thread still surfaces for the "backup before a workflow scheme change" question, and the underlying gap Harry's describing hasn't really gone away — just moved. This was Server/on-premise Jira in 2012 (XML export, full-instance backups only), but the same "no official way to snapshot just one project's config" limitation exists in Jira Cloud today too, just for different reasons: there's no native scheduled snapshot of a project's workflow/permission scheme config that you can diff against or restore from before making a scoped change.

The safest practical approach for anyone landing here now: before reassigning a workflow scheme, manually document the current scheme's config (screenshots or exported JSON via the API) so you have something to compare against if the migration causes unexpected status mapping issues. It's not a real backup, but it's better than nothing, and it's basically the same workaround people have been using for over a decade because the native tooling doesn't offer a cleaner option.

[Harry Chan]

Hi, you can create a copy of the workflow scheme and all its workflows, however if statuses have been changed and during the migration you've mapped workflow statuses, there may be loss of data. In that case I suggest doing a full backup and restore if required. You'd probably need to "freeze" the system in case.

[Neena Goyal]

Thanks

Actually when i assign the new workflow scheme to an existing Project it says that please ask your system administrator to take a backup in xml file. How can i take that back up.

[Harry Chan]

Hi, you can do an export by following: https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/AOD/Exporting+issues. You will need to be an admin to do this.

[Neena Goyal]

Will this take back up of the entire project configured in JIRA?

I want to take a backup of only one project.

[Harry Chan]

It's not quite possible, at least not from JIRA. You might have some luck with plugins, but no official way.

[Neena Goyal]

Let me know how to take back up of one project only

[Neena Goyal]

I have JIra on demand , can i get this done by support engineers as shared in the link below

https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/60624/how-do-i-contact-a-jira-system-administrator-to-get-an-xml-backup

[Neena Goyal]

only 5 to 10 projects.

or is there any other way to do this so that data does not mess and i can recover the previous data if something goes wrong

[Harry Chan]

NNG and was this a full or only 1 project backup?

[Harry Chan]

As said as far as I know JIRA only do full backups properly/officially.

[Neena Goyal]

please share your views, is it possible