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How do we upgrade the DB from 7.3.1 to 8.13

Teresa Luis

We are building a new server and installing Jira from scratch for our Application Server. The database server is staying the same. Can someone advise the best way to get the Database up to that version or will that happen when we install the application on the new app server?

thanks

Teresa

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Edwin Kyalangalilwa

Hi @Teresa Luis ,

Jira updates the data in the database whenever you upgrade. If your data is at 7.3.1 and you start 8.13 pointing to the same database, then on startup the data will be updated. Please take a look at the supported platforms for 8.13, before upgrading and make updates accordingly.

Hope that makes sense and answers your question. If not, please elaborate.

Teresa Luis

Thanks Edwin, that is very helpful. One other question is if we wanted to clone the current DB and give it a different name, can we point the new install to that or does the install automatically choose a particular DB name. The reason for this is that we'd like our users to be able to continue using the current version while we are configuring the new app server but they won't be able to do that if the DB gets upgraded.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

You can indeed work with a copy of the database, but remember that any change your people make in the old system after you take the copy will not happen in the new one.

Edwin Kyalangalilwa

As Nic mentioned, any updates will not be in the new system. The database name can be update in the dbconfig.xml file in the home directory. So it would be best to schedule a cutover. I didn't see a mention of it, so please note that you'll have to also migrate the home directory as well to the new server. Before starting Jira in the server, ensure that the database name is not pointing to the current database in dbconfig.xml.

From what you've mentioned, it seems you're migrating using the native backup option .... Restoring data .... which entails:

Take a backup of the database
Take a backup of the install directory
Take a backup of the home directory
Create a copy of the database and restore install/home directories to the new server, but don't start Jira
Edit dbconfig.xml to point to the cloned database
Disable email in setenv.sh as mentioned in the documentation
Start Jira

The other option is using an XML backup.

Teresa Luis

Which version of Java (8 or 11) gets installed automatically with the Jira Software 8.13 version?

thanks

Edwin Kyalangalilwa

Here are the versions: Bundled Tomcat and Java versions

Please note that the JRE is only bundled when Jira is installed through an installer.

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