Jira Upgrade question

Question

I have a test system that I performed an in place upgrade from 6.4.8 to 7.0.11. Other than some issues with plugins it seems okay. So now I have a 7.0.11 system. Can I copy or migrate my production 6.4.8 database to this system and will Jira do whatever upgrades to the data to bring it to the 7.0.11 level?

Ultimately I want to go from 6.4.8 to the latest, 7.4.1. Should I go to 7.0 or 7.1 as the intermediate stop prior to 7.4.1? I've seen different answers?

Thanks,

Mike Oatsvall

Mike_bib3ef · Answer

Thanks again Nic. I appreciate the answers.

Regards,

Mike

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

Older versions will happily do that, given the right information in the home directory (if it's off-the-shelf, you're probably fine!) but I've not tested it from 7.0 - I've only ever jumped to 7 by running the installer against 6.x

Mike_bib3ef · Answer

I did figure that out after a bit. I didn't think there was a 6.13, but who knows??

Maybe you know the answer to this question I know you can't upgrade a database by importing older XML files, but if I replace  the database with older database will Jira make whatever database/schemea changes at startup that are needed to match it with the runnning software. Or can that upgrade only happen by running the installer with the upgrade process?