Upgrading JIRA 3.10 to JIRA 7.x

[HunterBriz]

Hi guys,

I just want to ask one question, we are using pretty old version of Jira - v3.10

is there any possible way to upgrade to one of the latests versions of Jira with only 1 step?or this is not awailable still?

could you please help with suggestion if there is any tool available to migrate to new version with 1 step without migrating to 4.4.5 first then to some other version and then to my Target version of Jira?

i just want to avoid this, and migrate as 1 step if possible.

and also, is there any available way to migrate only one project to new version instead of Whole DataBase for each project?

could you please suggest me some right direction on this?

thanks

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

No.  The later versions do not have code that understands the older data, so any attempt to upgrade will fail.

You must go through the recommended versions

[HunterBriz]

ok,

could you please correct me if i'm wrong with list of version:

3.10 -> 4.4.5 -> 6.4 -> 7.0 -> 7.x (any)

is this correct path ?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Technically yes, but you should test each step a lot.  I have never seen a 4.4.5 go to 6.4 cleanly, we've always had to go through 5.2 or 6.0.

[HunterBriz]

ohh, then couple more steps is coming for me:

3.10 -> 4.4.5 -> 5.2 -> 6.0 -> 6.4 -> 7.0 -> 7.x (any)

is something like this? this looks like much more work needs to be done :) to migrate

i was able to find this link:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/jira/upgrading-jira-3-x-data-to-jira-6-x-251004540.html

that is why i'm thinking 4.4.5 and next is 6.4,

am i wrong with this link? could you pleas esuggest some documentation for steps? if you know

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

Sorry, I was not clear that there is a difference between the documentation and my experience.

The documentation says 4.4.5 to 6.4 is the recommended route, and I have no argument with that.

In my experience, it has failed when I have done it and I have always then gone through either 4.4 -> 5.2 -> 6.4  or 4.4 -> 6.0 -> 6.4

So, because of my experiences, I am recommending that you try 4.4 to 6.4 and then test the results very thoroughly, and allow time to insert one more in between if that testing fails!

[HunterBriz]

ok, thank you so much Nic,

i understand the versions i need to go through