Hi,
We have set up Jira Data Center and would like to migrate projects with most of the data which would basically mean issues with comments, attachments, history etc, from atlassian SaaS version (****.atlassian.net) to current data center version. I do understand that the versions are different here. Since its not a new out of the box thing that i am trying to accomplish and there has been several posts around it in different forums, i would like to know the best way of trying this out without impacting the current configuration of our target instance. CSV import doesn't meet the requirements here. Native Jira project import is also a bit challenging since that would need us to set up test instance with same version as prod target instance, then try the import there and then use that XML back up to restore on prod target instance. There are a few plugins that talk about getting this done quite easily like the Project Configurator, but i'm not sure how far we can go with that since we have never tried that.
Given the requirements that we have where as of now all we would like to do is to import as much data into target instance as needed primarily comments, attachments and history without overwriting or messing up the current target instance, what would be the best way to try this out. We don't want to try several things here and would like to just know the most feasible approach to guard these requirements.
Cheers,
Ashley
