Can I merge a JIRA cloud instance with an existing populated JIRA server instance that is already in use?

[Daniel Burris]

I'm trying to consolidate JIRA. We have an ondemand instance that we have used for part of the company, and a JIRA server instance for another part of the company for security purposes. We want to import our cloud instance (not per project, but everything) into our local JIRA server instance. I want to make sure nothing gets messed up with the existing JIRA server projects with this migration. Is this possible or do I need to do it 1 project at a time?

Thanks,

Daneil

[George Dinkov _Botron_]

Hi Daniel,

In order to preserve the target system's data you'll have to import the source projects one at a time using JIRA's project import tool. However before using the tool you need to have the projects' configurations set up - all schemes, worflows, issue types, custom fields, etc. You can do this in a single deployment using our add-on - Configuration Manager for JIRA. Since CMJ works on JIRA server only you can restore the cloud JIRA on a temporary server and then perform the migration.

For more details about this job you can review this article - https://botronsoft.atlassian.net/wiki/display/CMJ/Move+Projects 

If you encounter problems don't hesitate to drop us an email at support@botronsoft.com 

Thanks!

[Dario B]

This is mostly the same procedure explained in the below KB article. Just since you have only 1 Cloud instance you can skip step #1:

- https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/how-to-merge-two-different-jira-cloud-applications-together-779160767.html