Copy a Project with all issues

Martin Thwaites

I'm currently doing a lot of playing with workflows/Issue types in our OnDemand Jira instance with Greenhopper, and I'm looking for a way that I can essentially "revert" the project when I'm done playing.

I'm thinking that are various ways to solve the problem, but not sure if any are possible?

1. Backup the individual Project, then restore it.

2. Duplicate the project with all issues.

3. Write an application that uses the API to iterate through issues on one project and then commit them to another.

Has anyone tried to do this and has an idea of how it can be acheived?

Thanks,

Martin

Ramiro P

Hi Martin, the problem is that as you are in OD version of Jira you have limited options for this. In fact, there's a plugin (Script Runner) that can copy your project, but it does not copy all the issues.

There's a possibility of Importing a Project to the Jira instance but I'm almost sure this is not possible in OD version since it does make some changes on the instance.

Whatever you decide to do remember it's important to do a backup of the instance, in case something goes wrong.

In my opinion, what you have to do it's what I usually do, create a Test Project and Test Issues to try out anything you need. That way it wouldn't affect your real projects.

Hope this helps.