Backup and Restore per projects

[Jira Median]

Hi,

1. How can I backup and restore per projects (not global) ?

2. Is it possible to automate the process ?

thanks

[jira guy · Accepted solution]

As far as I know, generic xml backups can be done for the entire instance. During restore you can choose the specific project to restore.  

Automation:

Generic xml backups cannot be automated. But you can use the native database backup tools to automate backup and restore. You might have to do some bash scripting.

[Kian Stack Mumo Systems]

Hey Sri, 

It actually isn't accurate that you cannot automate the backups. This is a feature within JIRA as documented here. 

https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver/automating-jira-application-backups-938847675.html

[Mikael Sandberg]

In order a project from backup, you need to restore the full backup to a new empty Jira instance and then remove projects that you do not want to restore. Here is a link to the documentation, https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver/restoring-a-project-from-backup-938847691.html

[somethingblue]

Hi,

 Natively JIRA will only backup the entire instance from which you can import the projects into another instance individually.  There are some add-ons that may help you achieve this such as Project Configurator. 

Take a look at the link I posted and when you use that you should be able to automate some functions.  Take a look at their documentation for more information.  There is a section titled How to automate export and load of complete projects that may help.

Cheers,

Branden

[Kian Stack Mumo Systems]

Hey there. You can't backup just a single project. When you take an XML backup it will be the whole instance. This you can automate with an automatic backup service. 

https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver/automating-jira-application-backups-938847675.html

You can't restore single projects using the full XML backup as documented under this documentation. 

https://confluence.atlassian.com/adminjiraserver071/restoring-a-project-from-backup-802592982.html