import and export data from bamboo

[Snehal Jadhav]

whenever I try to import the bamboo data from a instance to b instance its vanish the previous data from that b bamboo instance and only a instance data get imported into it.But i want b bamboo data as well as a bamboo instance data in b instance.

[Shashank Kumar · Accepted solution]

Hello Snehal,

Welcome to Atlassian community.

When you use Import/Export the data from the previous Instance is deleted and data from the previous Instance is deleted, this is expected as per Bamboo Import 

• The import process will delete your Bamboo installation and restore data from a previous export of Bamboo. This includes login data, so you will need to know an administration login in the Bamboo data to be imported.

Regards,

Shashank kumar

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[Snehal Jadhav]

this scenario is same for Jira ?  

[Shashank Kumar]

Hey Snehal,

It may not be same for Jira, please post a question in Jira community to get the right answers.

Regards,

Shashank Kumar

[Snehal Jadhav]

only 2 projects from existing BAMBOO to exported and importing these (which are exported projects) to other BAMBOO (which has already many projects & data) , it will work ? 

[Shashank Kumar]

Hello Snehal,

Sorry this won't work, you'll have to manually create the project the plans.

However there is a feature request raised for the same since a long time > https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/BAM-1223, however it has not got much traction probably because of Bamboo specs which does the same thing but in a different way.

Regards,

Shashank Kumar

[Anik Sengupta]

Adding to what Shashank said , if you want to keep the data in instance b intact and then use data in instance b You can by pass the import/export option i.e If your current instance has grown too large and export/import does not work, you can still clone your instance by using an alternative backup and restore strategy.

a) Stop the original Bamboo instance.
b) Create a backup of the DB, rename it to DB backup of instance b
c) Backup the <bamboo-home> directory in the new instance
d) Transfer the compressed original <bamboo-home> directory from the old server to the new server where you installed the new Bamboo instance.
d) Replace the content of the new <bamboo-home> directory with the unzipped <home-directory> content.
e) Import the external database backup into the new DB instance
f) Start the new Bamboo instance.

[Snehal Jadhav]

yes, we are doing import/export only. but whenever we are trying for import data from A bamboo to B bamboo , current data which is present in B bamboo it will get revoke automatically and the data which present in A bamboo its get imported . but we want both