Live Production System Backup (not Data Center)

[James Brown]

What is the best strategy for doing a live backup/snapshot of an Atlassian Application without needing to shut it down? Is this a possibility without the Data Center license?

I currently have JIRA, Confluence, Bamboo Bitbucket, and Crowd servers that are used relatively 24/7 Worldwide. Thus taking down one of these for even 15 minutes is inconvenient. We are not interested in purchasing the Data Center license.

[Domenico Manzo _Actonic_]

One of the possible ways is to use some Backup System, like https://blog.bacula.org/

You should backup 2 items: application folder (jirahome, confluencehome, etc.) and database of each application.

For huge JIRA server is important to enable "index recovery" feature also. More details https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/jira-indexing-snapshot-720638070.html

[James Brown]

Thanks for the help. I did some searching and finally found some Atlassian Documentation on doing Zero Downtime Backups. Although it's not officially supported in Server Versions (only Data Center) it's at least a start.

Atlassian Answer for JIRA v7.5 - https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver075/zero-downtime-upgrade-checklist-935390953.html

Bitbucket is possible v5.5 - We would need to customize Atlassian's DIY Backup Scripts for our purpose - https://bitbucket.org/atlassianlabs/atlassian-bitbucket-diy-backup?_ga=2.98787609.608145113.1511795571-1880084014.1509455997 -- https://confluence.atlassian.com/bitbucketserver/using-bitbucket-zero-downtime-backup-829920023.html