JIRA 4.3 : Archiving a Project
This page last changed on Jul 23, 2010 by rosie@atlassian.com.
It is sometimes necessary to archive an old project, while retaining the project's data for future auditing purposes. There are a number of ways to achieve this: Online archivingArchiving a project online means keeping all of the project's issue data in your live JIRA instance. The advantage of archiving a project online is that you can easily make the project accessible again if required. There are two ways to archive a project online: 'Hiding' a projectA 'hidden' project will still be visible via the 'Administration' menu, but it will no longer appear in the 'Browse Projects' list, and no-one will be able to search, view or modify any of the project's issues.
Making a project 'Read-Only'If you make a project read-only, the project will be visible via the 'Administration' menu, and will appear in the 'Browse Projects' list. The project's issues will be searchable and viewable, but noone will be able to modify them.
Accessing an archived online projectIf you archived a project online, by hiding it or making it read-only, then all of the project's data can be made accessible very easily. Simply associate the project with a permission scheme where the appropriate permissions (e.g. 'Edit Issue', 'Assign Issue', 'Resolve Issue', etc) are assigned to the appropriate people. Offline archivingArchiving a project offline means creating an XML backup, then deleting the project and all of its issue data from your live JIRA instance. The project will no longer be available via the 'Administration' menu or the 'Browse Projects' list, and its issues will no longer exist in your live JIRA system. The disadvantage of offline archiving is that there is no easy way to restore a deleted project to your live JIRA instance.
Archiving a project offline
Accessing an archived offline project
Restoring a deleted projectIf you wish to restore a project from a backup file, please refer to the instructions in the Restoring a Project from Backup documentation. Note that the JIRA version and database type must be consistent with when the archive was created. |
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