Hello Community,
I have never used JCMA (Jira Cloud Migration Assistant) to migrate/consolidate Jira projects from Jira Server to Jira Cloud, but I have heard that JCMA has still some issues/drawbacks due to which the migration/consolidation of Jira projects lacks consistency of migrated data, and people are not willing to still use it for the process.
So, I was wondering to create an open place here to discuss experiences of the community members that have faced any such data migration issues/problems/drawbacks and how did they resolve it? The purpose is to learn about these problems and their solutions from each other, so that we all can use JCMA successfully for this in-demand and important use case.
It would also be great if you someone could also share the high level end-to-end process that you have followed to make sure that JCMA migrates/consolidates Jira projects from Jira Server to Jira Cloud, successfully.
So, you are all welcomed to share your JCMA experience here in comments.......
@Jason Wong @Thanks for sharing this wonderful and useful information on current JCMA usage possibilities, current migration/consolidation issues and their alternatives and/or upcoming solutions. I am looking forward to hearing more about real experiences and feedback from the community about their success or struggle with using JCMA. This would be really interesting for new JCMA users and very useful feedback for your team as well to help them in improving the overall user experience.
Thank you for sharing, I not have experience to migrate JIRA server/data center
to JIRA Cloud but used to migrate JIRA servers (12 instance)
and JIRA Cloud (3 instances) into JIRA Data Center with CMJ
(https://botronsoft.atlassian.net)
however before migration / consolidation you need to identify and capture some conflicts,
as above Jason advise, and migration in-house scripting.
However the most challenging is how can we captures issues,
communication to user since user
in each instance having difference business cases,
configuration, integration and plug in installation, ect,
kind of things need to capture and well-plan ,
along with perform Dry-Run / UAT engagement also important.