Selective Data Copy for Sandbox is now in General Availability!

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Hey Atlassian Community,

We're excited to announce the general availability (GA) of Selective Data Copy for sandboxes! This feature will be available to our Premium and Enterprise customers for Jira and Confluence and will be available for Jira Service Management later this year. 

What is a sandbox? 

A sandbox provides an isolated environment for testing and experimenting with Atlassian products before implementing changes in production. It mirrors your chosen product's production environment.

Additionally, sandboxes allow you to test new features, onboard users, and evaluate apps without affecting the production environment.

What problem does Selective Data Copy solve?

In the past, when creating a sandbox, all data from the production site would be copied into the associated sandbox. However, it's often the case that an Admin only needs a subset of their production data in their sandbox.

This is where Selective Data Copy proves valuable. With this feature, Admins have the flexibility to selectively copy specific Jira projects or Confluence spaces from their production environment to their sandbox. By only copying over a subset of data, the set up time of a sandbox becomes faster, allowing you to test new features and workflows sooner!

How can I access this feature?

To copy specific spaces or projects from your production to its sandbox:

1. Go to admin.atlassian.com. Select your organisation if you have more than one.
2. Select Products > Sandbox.
3. Under Actions in the product table, select Copy production data.
4. Follow the steps to select Specific projects or Specific spaces.
5. If you want to see attachments in your sandbox, select Include attachments. Depending on whether you are on centralised user management or original user management, your experience of granting users and groups access to the sandbox will differ. Find out which user management experience you have.
6. Depending on whether your organisation is on original user management, select if you want to Preserve group memberships in your sandbox.
7. Run the Validation.
8. Review the data to be copied.
9. Select Copy data. 

Learn more about Sandbox and Selective Data Copy here.

A massive thank you to those who participated in the early access and beta programs. We value your input and want you to know that you have helped us shape and improve not only Selective Data Copy, but our entire Sandbox experience.