What is the best way to determine if Jira servers should be merged or federated?

Rob Horan

I administer a Jira server for my team and a few others.  Due to an acquisition we now have a larger, organization-wide instance of Jira as well.  We need information from my smaller instance available to the larger.  (Searches, dashboards, links, etc) I am not sure of how best to go about this, or what the potential dangers there are.  Any help would be very much appreciated. One server uses crowd for user accounts, the other does not.  All users in my instance have active accounts in the other.

Anyone with experience with the Project Configurator add on, please let me know!

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.awnaba.projectconfigurator.projectconfigurator/server/overview

Edwin Kyalangalilwa

Hi Robert,

To be merged, the JIRA's will have to be on the same versions. Then you can take an export from either your instance or the other and use the Project Import functionality. 

https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver/restoring-a-project-from-backup-938847691.html

The dashboards and links will need to be recreated.