How do we migrate data from Jira server to AWS Cloud (server license), without using the XML backup?

Question

Hi,

We are currently migrating Jira (server license) from on-prem to AWS Cloud (server license) - Any suggestions on how to migrate the application data to AWS Cloud?

Our instance is very large (600 GB) therefore the XML export option is not viable for us.

Thanks,

Keshni

sunil kumar_m1me4i · Answer

Hi @Dawn Fama @Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

In an upcoming project, we need to migrate from JIRA On prem and confluence spaces to AWS Data center. There will be multiple instances of JIRA to migrate. Could you please guide what should be the approach on this. Which application should we use and what could be the step by step process for this.

Also any articles or study material you could provide for this. Will appreciate any sort of help.

Thanks.

Dawn Fama · Answer

Thank you Nic, I totally agree, terminology is sometimes confusing.

I have done this migration and it went quite smoothly.

I had on prem instance running JIRA Software server.  I just installed same version of JIRA to our AWS EC2 instance.  Sent out a notification to all users to inform them of down time.

Our DBA made a copy of the on prem JIRA DB to an AWS DB instance (also same version of MS SQL DB).

Copied the home directory to the AWS EC2 instance and the rest is just making the connections as you said.

I did have to update the base URL as it changed.

Emily Chan · Answer

Hi @Keshni ! I'm Emily, a product manager at Atlassian.

We've just built the beta of a solution to help ease migrations from Server/Data-Center-on-prem to Data-Center-on-AWS-Quickstarts.

Would you be interested to join our beta program and try out this solution? If you're interested, or would like to find out more, please email me at echan@atlassian.com.