reinstalling jira with backup

Question

Hello,

I backed up our jira DB as well as the data folder as per the documentation. I have now reinstalled the same version of jira and am wondering how to proceed to restore this data.

Should I go through the whole jira wizard and once I'm done, dump my DB file into the database + the data folder. Or is there another way?

Thanks

Stephen Gurnick · Accepted Answer

What is it that you are attemtping to accomplish? Are you building out a second JIRA server from this back-up? Are you wiping-out your existing server and going to re-install?

In either case, the process I follow for creating (or refreshing) a JIRA or Confluene server is to back-up three things:

* The Database
* The Installation directory
* The Home directory (this is also known as the data directory)

You can then take these three items and move them wherever you like. For example, if you are building out a new secondary JIRA server:

* Ensure you have DNS set-up correctly to resolve to your second server
* It would be best if you had at least a bare base install of the version of JIRA you want to use on this system - it's not required but it is helpful since it sets-up the JIRA accounts for you and start-up scripts
* Create a new database with a user account that can access it from your new JIRA server
* Restore your DB dump to the new database
* Unpack the installation and home directories - this will overwrite your base install
* Modify the dbconfig.xml file in the JIRA home directory to point to your new database using your new user account information

Once you've completed these steps, you will have "cloned" your JIRA instance. You will probably want to adjust your Base URL path so it is not the same as your first JIRA server - you can do this before hand using command line tools (depending on what DB you have) or in the web GUI. If you are simply wiping-out your first server and rebuilding than this is not necessary.

Start JIRA and you should be good to go. This is a very rough procedure but should get you going in the right direction.

Hope this helps.