Trying to Create a Test Environment

Question

Hello,

I work for a company that's currently operating on JIRA 5.2.5, and we're looking to upgrade. We think the first step of doing this is to create a test instance of 5.2.5, point it at a duplicated version of our live database and see where we can go from there.

So, we have a VM setup, and a tunneled connection to a MSSQL server. I've since installing JIRA 5.2.5 onto this machine, but unfortunately, I've got an error when trying to load up. Essentially, it's stated that my build of 5.2.5 isn't compatible with the DB we're using in live. For ref, we're using v5.2.5#847-sha1:7fd7dd6 in live currently, but the version downloaded from https://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/download-archives seems to be different.

Can anyone suggest a good away round this, or, alternative another way of doing things?

Ed Hams_fckixv · Answer

Ahh thanks for that Branden - I was testing out a rollback so we'll need to do a manual restore.

Good to know. :)

somethingblue · Answer

Hi Ed,

I would check the target database again.  The error you're getting is stating the database is using version 64014 which is JIRA 6.4.

Make sure the version you're installing is indeed the 5.x version you had previously and retry on a supported database for that version of JIRA.

Cheers,

Branden

Ed Hams_fckixv · Answer

For reference, the MSSQL is 2012 x64.

Thanks!