Migrating a project across 2 Jira instance

[salman_kagzi]

Hey Folks,

I am migrating a few project from a Jira server A (v 6.1.2) to Jira server B (v 6.1.2). The migration process in itself i have carried out a number of times before and though laborious, it works.

The problem I am facing this time is a bit of a different scenario I have come across first time.

In Jira Server A there are 2 Projects P1 and P2. Number of issues in these 2 projects links to each other. This time I am only migrating project P1 from Jira server A to B.

Now, how can I make sure that links in P1 still point to P2 on old server and links in P2 points to P1 in new server. I have tried going through different Jira documents and ended up finding nothing. Google search also didnt get me anywhere.

Has some done a similar migration earlier? Is there any way to ensure that links do not break.

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist] · Accepted solution]

It is not possible to retain the links unless both projects are migrated over. The best you can do, I think, is to do some scripting outside of the migration to replace the existing links with the equivalent remote links.

[salman_kagzi]

What if I created Project links between these 2 Jira projects. Would that work?

PS: I am due to experiment on that tomorrow. Your inputs would be great help.

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

I do not think that wil work but haven't tried it before.

[salman_kagzi]

Didnt work :'(

To my suprise link are not writtent at all. What I mean is.

Case-1: Issue from P1 links to another issue from P1. These links are imported fine.

Case-2: Issue from P1 links to an issue from P2. These links are not added at all. I couldn't find an entry for such links even in the database.

Any idea what could be happeing here? Is it somekind of limitation in Jira project import process?

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

It is not a limitation but works as designed. The issues are in different instances and so they lose the tracebility. If you move both projects in, links will be retained.

[balaji dinoct]

Jobin Kuruvilla [Go2Group] ·

I have migrated project from ondemand to JIRA standalone 6.2.3 version. After migration i cann't able to login as sysadmin.

sysadmin user is member of administrator, system-administrators group. But not in jira-user group. https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/JIRA051/Retrieving+the+JIRA+AdministratorThis link i used to recover my sysadmin password. But i cann't. Can you please know any other alternative is there to recover sysadmin password.

[Jobin Kuruvilla [Adaptavist]]

Did you add the user into groups or grant the groups required permissions? If you are confused, follow scenario A in the above document.

[balaji dinoct]

Jobin Kuruvilla [Go2Group]

Thanks for your reply.

I didn't add user in the group. I have checked that there is no jira-administrators group in the cwd_group table.

select perm_parameter from jiraschema.schemepermissions where PERMISSION=0;

perm_parameter

----------------

administrators

site-admins

(2 rows)

select perm_parameter from jiraschema.schemepermissions where PERMISSION=44;

perm_parameter

---------------------------

system-administrators

confluence-administrators

(2 rows)

select child_name,parent_name from jiraschema.cwd_membership where parent_name='jira-administrators';

child_name | parent_name

------------+-------------

(0 rows)

I have followed the scenario B and i updated the sysadmin credentials. and restarted jira service eventhough i cann't able to sysadmin.

Note:

Not only for sysadmin user. i cann't able to login as normal user also.