backup files

Harsha Vardhan Doddi

When you backup the data in Jira, they are stored in export as a zip file. These files when unzipped are activeobjexts.xml and entities.xml

Can anyone please tell me more about what these files indicate and do we edit them for any purpose?

How can we relate these files to the back up taken?

Nic Brough -Adaptavist-

They're database-independent representations of the data Jira holds for its main data (entities.xml) and the data it holds for apps and plugins (activeobjects.xml).  They make up 2 or the 3 backups you need to take for a full, but minimal backup (the third one being the attachments from the files system)

I would very strongly recommend not editing the xml - it is incredibly easy to get it wrong an leave yourself with a destroyed or corrupted system if you restore from it.  And I'm pretty sure Atlassian will not support the edits, or even possibly a system rebuild from edited xml