Migration from one jira cloud to another

[Lee Hughes]

Hi

I have two instances of Jira cloud and I wish to migrate my next gen project from one instance to another 

So I complete the jira inbuilt back process. downloaded the zip file and then tried the import wizard and I get this error message

An error occurred during the import process.

Import again with a different backup file or get in touch with our support team. Include the steps you followed, along with any unique characteristics of your Jira setup.

• Error importing data: cloud.atlassian.logmon.laas.api.PrivacySafeException: Privacy-safe boxing of a com.atlassian.jira.bc.dataimport.identity.UsersImportService$WrappingCrowdException

it fails here.  Any ideas?

SUCCESS	Processing your Jira backup
SUCCESS	Processing your Jira and plugin data
SUCCESS	Updating the database
SUCCESS	Importing attachments and avatars
FAILED	Synchronizing users and groups
NOT_STARTED	Activating Jira

[Lee Hughes · Accepted solution]

@Angélica Luz - All sorted, no data loss.  Support managed to remove the lock on the browser

[Angélica Luz]

Hello Lee,

Thank you for reaching out to Atlassian Community!

I can see that you are using a Free site where the number of available licenses is limited to three for Service Management and 10 for Software, so the error you are facing might be related to this.

You can edit the entities.xml file to set users as inactive. Please, let only your account and the sysadmin account as active. 

On the entities.xml, users will show as the example below:

<User id="12345" directoryId="1" userName="user" lowerUserName="user" active="1" createdDate="2018-12-13 19:41:47.381" updatedDate="2018-12-14 19:41:45.769" firstName="User" lowerFirstName="user" lastName="User" lowerLastName="user" displayName="User" lowerDisplayName="user" emailAddress="user@domain.com" lowerEmailAddress="user@domain.com" credential="nopass" deletedExternally="0" externalId="123456:a78901b2-c34d-56e7-f8g9-0h1i2j345k67" localServiceDeskUser="0"/>

You can change "0" on "active", so their account will be imported, but as inactive.

After changing the information, save the file and zip it again to import to Cloud.

• Resolve user and groups synchronization error

Kind regards,
Angélica

[Lee Hughes]

Many thanks @Angélica Luz 

Is there a way to just undo what I did?  I think I imported in error and dont wish to affect existing site

[Angélica Luz]

Hi Lee,

One of the last steps of the migration is the import of users and groups. It means that the site was already wiped. 

I can see that you created a ticket with our support and they are already helping you with this request. Through the ticket, they can access your site in order to help you with the migration.

[Lee Hughes]

@Angélica Luz .  Crap I was hoping we could roll back and save site.  I have imported the wrong site on top of the site

[Lee Hughes]

@Angélica Luz  - All sorted, no data loss.  Support managed to remove the lock on the browser