Our Jira SQL server instance crashed we have a JiraDB SQL Backup, how to restore this

Question

After an upgrade of SQL server 2012, the master database was corrupt.
We didn't get it to rebuild or restore. We removed the sql instance and installed it again.
We also restored the sql backup and configured Jira.

At first start of Jira, I need to configure everything, including users, this is not what I want or I can import a XML file, which I don't have, because we were making sql-backups (and backups of de jira application data)

Can you help me to get my Jira instalation back to work.

Paul Sjoerdsma · Accepted Answer

I found the xml file within the backup.

There are a lot of zip files in <jira application data>\export. These contains a file "entities.xml"