Migrating JIRA data to the cloud from a Test instance

Question

Hi Folks,

We have a temporary JIRA test instance set up, for the purpose of on-premise server upgrade version testing.  Now that we're planning to migrate to the Cloud, is it possible to migrate a portion of the data from the test instance to the Cloud, to use as a validation mechanism, before migrating our Production data?

Bill Beard_uwf7a6 · Answer

Thanks, Trudy!

Trudy P Claspill · Answer

Hello @Bill Beard

The Jira Cloud Migration Assistant plugin enables you to select which specific projects you want to migrate from your on-premise instance to a Cloud instance.

You can find more information about that plugin in the Migration documentation resource.

https://support.atlassian.com/migration/resources/

It is actually recommended that you do a test migration to cloud from a replica of your on-premise instance, and that the Cloud instance to which you migrate be a different instance than you will migrate to during production migration.