Refresh Stash sandbox?

Question

I have a sandbox environment for Stash. I am wondering what the easiest way to refresh it from our production environment is?

In JIRA I can just do an XML dump and import it into the Sandbox instance. Nice an easy, just have to update application links, license, etc.

The stash version is 3.3.

Timothy Harris · Answer

Well there is one more VERY important step to add. Doing it the way I described above you need to make sure you update the stash-config.properties file and change the JDBC connection properties as they point to PRODUCTION database.

Balázs Szakmáry · Answer

Yes, this seems about correct. I agree that it could be simpler. (Most people don't do this too often.)

Timothy Harris · Answer

To be honest, I find this documentation a bit confusing. The way I read it, please correct me if I am wrong, is that the sections that pertains to me is section 2 "Migrating Stash Data to a different machine".

The database for the Sandbox is an external MySQL db, which is the same for production just on a different MySQL server.

So I think I have to do the following.

* Do a mysqldump of the *production* database.
* Backup the *production* HOME directory(tar and zip). This is "/var/atlassian/application-data/stash" in my case.
* Shut down stash on the *sandbox* server.
* Do a mysqldump on the database for the *sandbox*. Just in case.
* Backup the *sandbox* stash HOME directory(tar and zip). Just in case.
* Restore the *production* mysqldump file to the *sandbox* database.
* Move/rename the *sandbox* HOME directory.
* Extract the *production* HOME directory to the *sandbox* HOME directory.
* Restart stash on *sandbox*.

Seems all a bit complex :-( I think it could be made simpler if Stash provided an export/import functionality like JIRA for the database.