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Jira installation migration

Roberto Silvestri_8e1nvq

Hi,

We need to migrate our initial installation that is located in our on-premise server into another machine suitable to manage Jira as production

Can you please:

suggest me a suitable hardware configuration ?

Explain how to migrate the data into a server database (eg. mysql) ?

Suggest me a best practice to perform backup/restore ?

Thanks,

Roberto

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Alexey Matveev

Hello,

I think you can find all the information here

https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver072/migrating-jira-applications-to-another-server-828787651.html

miikhy

In addition to Alexey's answer, if you're not very familiar with migrtion you might also contact a Partner to help you during that process.

That being said, if you're targeting a blank new environment it's generally not that complex.

Good luck!

Andy Heinzer

+1 for Alexey's link of Migrating JIRA applications to another server

but I would also like to add some other documentation to address your other questions:

Jira sizing guide: in order to understand how much resources you will need for running Jira.
Switching database documentation - explains how you can change database types in Jira. Sometimes this is easier for database upgrades.
Establishing staging server environments for JIRA applications - Support always recommends that you test out any major changes like a migration or an upgrade on test server first before you try it on production. It tends to provide a lot fewer headaches.

Could you please tell us what version of Jira you are using now, and what version you want to upgrade to? Depending on the versions there might be additional steps needed to make sure you can upgrade all your data properly.

Roberto Silvestri_8e1nvq

Hi,

Thanks for your answers, can you please suggest me the best database server is to be used...mysql or mariadb ? something else ?

thanks,

Roberto

miikhy

Hey Roberto,

MySQL drivers can sometimes be source of some debugging so I'd definitely recommend a free an flexible solution, the most common I've seen and the one I use every time is PostgreSQL, it's also portable so definitely the best option in my opinion if your company does not have a preference

Hope this helps!

Andy Heinzer

MariaDB is explicitly not supported for Jira. You can find this detail in the Supported Platforms documentation.

You can use MySQL if you prefer, but I would tend to agree with Micky's comment in regards to database drivers. The problem tends to be that Atlassian installations can not currently bundle the mysql database driver when you do installations/upgrades for MySQL due to licensing concerns. However we don't have this same problem with other supported database types.

You are welcome to use MySQL, but I would recommend updating your mysql jdbc driver when you upgrade Jira each time.

In general, I tend to recommend that Jira installations use a supported version of Postgresql.

miikhy

+1 here, thanks for adding some context on the licensing issue with MySQL, didn't want to talk in Atlassian's name, I even do think that it's mentioned in the Database Connection KB in the official documentation

Roberto Silvestri_8e1nvq

Ok, thanks for your replies...

Another question is what about the security can you suggest some OS issues that we need to take into account ?

Roberto

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