Migrating to JIRA 8.2

jean houssin June 3, 2019

Hello, I want to migrate the version of JIRA 6.3.7 to version 8.2. Can you explain to me the procedure to apply? I can not find the answers. Thanks

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Petr Vaníček
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June 4, 2019

Hi,

if you re not so fimiliar with those types of upgrade I recommend you contact any Atlassian Solution Partner company in your country.

https://partnerdirectory.atlassian.com/

It needed several interim versions and probably a lot of manual steps. 

jean houssin June 4, 2019

Hi ! Thanks for your message ! 

jean houssin June 4, 2019

Can you tell me the main steps to migrate? It's a DataBase MySQL.

Petr Vaníček
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June 4, 2019

Main and general steps you can find in those articles and knowledge bases.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver/upgrading-jira-applications-938846936.html

Be careful regarding checklist

https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver/upgrade-checklist-966063320.html

If you will choose installer method follow this

https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver/upgrading-jira-server-installer-938846937.html

I can recommend you go through this way:

6.3.7 -> 6.4.14 -> 7.0.11 -> 7.13.3 -> 8.2.1

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jean houssin June 4, 2019

thank you very much for that !!  that helps a lot. Do you have a idea of a planning ?

Petr Vaníček
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June 4, 2019

What you mean with planning?

jean houssin June 4, 2019

I would like to make a provisional schedule for this migration but I do not know how long it takes for this

Petr Vaníček
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June 4, 2019

First do this on test environment - then you will know what problem you can expect on production and how much time it will take.

Based on my experience - if you don't have any special add-ons and customizations - it could take on production whole weekend (better start at Friday afternoon after bussiness hours).

jean houssin June 4, 2019

ok I understand better. So the weekend would be enough to migrate to version 8.2.1 ?

Petr Vaníček
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June 4, 2019

If there will not be any serious problem - then yes.

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June 5, 2019

Hello @jean houssin - I encourage you to heed these very wise words from @Petr Vaníček - "First do this on test environment - then you will know what problem you can expect". 

This is not a trivial change you are making.  You will likely need to work out problems in your test environment (which should be a copy of your production environment, not a vanilla installation) at several stages.  Practices this until it is a well-documented and smooth operation.  Then you will be better prepared with a comprehensive plan, fairly accurate time estimates, and be able to focus more on the unexpected things that will happen during your production outage.

~~Larry Brock

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