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Upgrading and moving JIRA from version 6.4.2 to 8.1.0

Berndt Johansson

We have an aging on-premise installation of Jira 6.4.2. Now looking to both upgrade and move the server instance to new hardware.

What would be the best procedure?

Can I install a new server instance and make a backup from the 6.4.2 version and restore the backup on the 8.1.0 version? Would be nice but I can certainly understand that that would be tricky... :-)

/Berndt

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Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

Since before Jira 6, the best upgrade procedure has been to do it "in place", not backup and restore via export/import. You can still do it this way, but it is not the recommended way.

I would clone your 6.4.2 system to a new system (so your current system acts as an instant "roll back"), and then run the installers to take it in steps through 7.0, 7.13 and then 8.1

Note that if you did export/import, you must still go through the intermediate versions, especially the 6.4 to 7.0 - there are data conversions that need to be done on a 6.4 system that cause problems in later versions if you try to skip 6.4 to 7.0

Have a read of https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver/upgrading-jira-applications-938846936.html before doing anything else!

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Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

Since before Jira 6, the best upgrade procedure has been to do it "in place", not backup and restore via export/import. You can still do it this way, but it is not the recommended way.

I would clone your 6.4.2 system to a new system (so your current system acts as an instant "roll back"), and then run the installers to take it in steps through 7.0, 7.13 and then 8.1

Have a read of https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver/upgrading-jira-applications-938846936.html before doing anything else!

Berndt Johansson

Sounds like a good plan. I'll try that.

/Berndt

Ranjit Vadakkan

Hi Berndt,

How did your upgrade go? I'm in the same boat, so any tips/feedback would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Ranjit

Berndt Johansson

Hi Ranjit

It worked just fine. I did go through the intermediary version as suggested above and made sure that I was working on the clone, then the upgrade went just as planned with no problems at all.

So my tip would be to follow the recommendation above.

/Berndt

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