How to migrate Jira 4.1 projects to Jira 5.2

Question

Hi Team

We have two jira environments. One is in Jira 4.1 and the other is in Jira 5.2

Now, the requirement is: we need to migrate few projects from Jira4 to the jira5 instance.

The jira 5 environment is already setup and we have projects in production. So the migration should not delete/disturb any existing projects in the jira5 instance.

Upgrading the existing jira 4 instance to jira 5 version is not what we want as many projects currently in Jira 4 wants to remain in Jira 4 itself.

Please help me with the recommended approach for our scenario.

Thanks and regards,

Fazila

Chung Park Chan · Accepted Answer

You can perform the import, with few extra steps as per this guide:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA/Restoring+a+Project+from+Backup#RestoringaProjectfromBackup-ProjectImportRestrictions