Offline archivhing projects/ issues in JIRA

Question

Can someone help me understand best practices involved for Offline archiving JIRA issues/ projects. I have been through the documentation and XML backup of JIRA would be the preferred way for offline archiving issues/ projects. This approach can be opted if archiving is an one time activity.

But at times if we want to archive issues/ projects for a cycle of every two years,  how does offline archiving help us with incremental data ??

Thank you!!

Alexey Matveev · Answer

Hello,

There is also a new feature in Jira 7.10 to archive projects. You can find more info here:

https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver/archiving-a-project-938847621.html

Mirek · Answer

You take the XML backup and you can create a new JIRA instance that would be like a snapshot from specific time. No need to set up any databases.. You can use this build in JIRA since this will not be a production server. Then if you want to access data from specific time you go to specific instance that could be all the time offline (unless it is needed). I suggest archive those unused projects and delete them later from source to avoid adding new stuff there and keep instance clean. That documentation might be helpful

https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver073/splitting-jira-applications-861253769.html