Migrate from JIRA v6.1 to JIRA 7.13 on a new server

Brian Pope_ojzldp

We need to migrate from JIRA v6.1 to JIRA 7.13 on a new server

JIRA v6.1 is currently running on Windows Server 2008 R2 connecting to the database running SQL Server 2008.  The new server is Windows Server 2016 with SQL Server 2016

Can I install JIRA 7.13 on the new server, export the JIRA 6.1 data to xml on the old server,  then import the 6.1 xml data on the new server?

JIRA is not the only application using the current application and database servers.  The new servers do not have any other applications using them yet.

Daniel Ebers

Hi Brian,

welcome to the Atlassian Community!

While I understand where you are coming from and what the challenges are there is a Knowledge Base entry about XML backup and restore which does not look very promising:
https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/xml-backup-and-restore-troubleshooting-203394750.html

I restored from XML backup several times and it worked ok - but in any case you will need to do your own tests on non-production environments.

As for the version jump it might be problematic nevertheless. Maybe some other users around here can say something to the specific version leap - from my point of view the easiest option would be to try with non-production systems.

Cheers,
Daniel