Migration from Windows to Linux supported?

[Thomas Reinhardt]

I want to move my locally hosted JIRA and Confluence installations from Windows to Linux. Is this supported and/or what are the pitfalls? Has anyone done this before?

Thanks for your help!

PS: I will upgrade to the latest versions before migration. Versions on Windows and Linux will match of course.

[Sloan N_ B_ · Accepted solution]

Hey Thomas

This is totally doable! All you need to do additionally is editing some files.

Check out https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/migrating-confluence-between-servers-184150.html for how to migrate Confluence and look what to do etxtra in If your new server has a different operating system...

Cheers
Nick

[Sloan N_ B_]

Oh and here for Jira: https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver/migrating-jira-applications-to-another-server-938846962.html

[Thomas Reinhardt]

Perfect. Exactly what I was looking for.

Thanks a lot!

[Bill Bailey]

I can't speak to Jira, but for Confluence, I would take the dumb approach -  do a full site backup of your Windows server, the restore that file to your Linux server. Relatively quick and easy.