JIRA to existing JIRA merge/migrate - for selected projects or all

Jijo John [DevOps Consultant] April 22, 2015

I have a requirement to migrate/merge JIRA projects from one JIRA to another.

What is the best approach to do this without losing existing JIRA data.

All workflows, schemes has to be migrated to existing JIRA.

Regards,

Jijo

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Peter T
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April 24, 2015

Hi Jijo,

if you are interested to find out more about the add-on that Nic recommends - Configuration Manager for JIRA drop us an email at support@botronsoft.com, we will be happy to show it you in action.

Cheers,

Peter

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Andrew Morin
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April 25, 2015

If you take a full backup of the JIRA instance of the source projects you want to copy you then can use the import tools to select only the projects you actually want to to copy. This method will also bring all of the source projects issues as well. I believe the JIRA versions need to match up. If they are close you can hack the xml backup file to modify the version to match the destination server version but your on your own if you do this.

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April 26, 2015

But the import relies on having the configuration being pre-prepared, as well as the JIRA versions being the same. That's why we reach for Botron - to bring the configs across

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April 27, 2015

Thanks Nic for pointing that out!

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Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
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April 22, 2015

I'd use the Botron project configurator to bring over the configuration for the projects, and once you have empty projects configured as per the source JIRA, use project-import to bring the issues in from an xml backup.

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