Best recommended practices for backing up Atlassian stack (PostgreSQL backend)

OneTech IT

I am running JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket and Crowd, all on individual CentOS 7.x servers, with a si ngle unified PostgreSQL 9.6.x on the back end.   All Atlassian versions are on the latest releases.

Is there a set of best practices for backing up each component of the stack, with minimal or no impact to production?

louisdj

You can find backup documentation on the Atlassian support website (eg. for Jira: https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver071/backing-up-data-802592964.html)

But TL;DR, make a backup of the database (native) and make backups of the data directory of the application (for Jira and Confluence, I have no experience with Bitbucket).

The timings you have to decide yourself, I would recommend to make them once a day (at night), and to keep at least 7 days or more.

Also, test your backups on frequent basis with a staging environment.