Migrate jira/confluence from production Server to test server docker-container

Samuel Tinapp

I have jira/confluence with a postgresql database on a server. Not in a docker container. I'm backing up the postgresql database with a dump and the confluence-home/jira-home folder. Now I want to restore the data on a testserver. On the testserver I have a jira/confluence docker container and a postgresql docker container. Things I'm doing:

    1. start postgresql-container and restore data with the sql-dump.     
    2. change the dbconfig.xml file in jira-home only the url
    3. change the confluence.cfg.xml file in confluence-home only the <property name="hibernate.connection.url"> property
    4.start jira/confluence container
First question:
I get a warning after Jira starts up on jira-start page:

    Database: Your database is using an unsupported collation
    
    Your postgres72 database is currently using an unsupported collation: de_DE.utf8. You should change this to a supported collation:
    
        POSIX.UTF-8
        C.UTF-8
        C
        POSIX
I don't understand how I can fix this. My postgresql Dockerfile looks like this:

    FROM postgres:9.6
    RUN localedef -i de_DE -c -f UTF-8 -A /usr/share/locale/locale.alias de_DE.UTF-8
    ENV LANG de_DE.utf8

How can I fix this?

Second question:

On the production system I have a license for 50 Users. I don't want to buy an other so I just want to use a trial license in the docker-container. When I start the Jira/Confluence container what happens to the license from the production-server? I guess the license-key is somewhere stored in the jira/confluence-home folder The worst case would be Jira/Confluence would be disabled on the production-Server. And what happens to the users because there are only 10 allowed?

Kindly Regards!

Charly _DEISER_

Hi @Samuel Tinapp

For the first question:

1.- Create an XML backup of your jira instance

2.- Stop jira

3.- Create a new database with the correct collation (C or C.UTF-8)

4.- Rename your dbconfig.xml file located in your jira_home (ie: old_dbconfig.xml)

5.- Start Jira. Once it is up i will ask you to select a db, pick the new one and finish the initial setup

6.- Import the xml file to restore your data

Note: make sure have backups of everything so you can be able to restore in case something goes wrong.

For the second question

If you have a production license you can request a development license, you can use this license in your test environment, this license will provide access to the same amount of users as your production license.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/how-to-get-a-jira-developer-license-744526918.html

in confluence the license key is located in the confluence.cfg.xml file (confluence home folder), in jira is located in the db.

Hope this helps