JIRA 4.3 : Restoring Data
This page last changed on Dec 23, 2010 by rosie@atlassian.com.
This page describes how to restore JIRA data from a backup. This is the second step in either upgrading your server to a new JIRA revision, or splitting your JIRA instance across multiple servers. If you wish restore a single project from your backup into an existing JIRA instance, refer to these instructions on restoring a project from backup instead.
Restoring JIRA from backup is a three stage process:
1. Disabling email sending/receivingIf you are restoring production data into a test JIRA instance for experimentation purposes, you probably want to disable JIRA's email interaction features before you begin:
Exactly how to set these flags is dependent on your particular application server, but for JIRA Standalone (i.e. Tomcat), it is done by setting the JAVA_OPTS environment variable before starting JIRA: set JAVA_OPTS="-Datlassian.mail.senddisabled=true -Datlassian.mail.fetchdisabled=true" cd bin startup.bat You could also try un-commenting the JAVA_OPTS="-Datlassian.mail.senddisabled=true -Datlassian.mail.fetchdisabled=true line from your /bin/setenv.sh file and then running startup. 2. Restoring XML dataNote: these instructions assume that you are restoring an XML backup. If you used native database tools to create your backup, the restore process will be tool-specific so these instructions do not apply to you.
3. Restoring attachmentsIf you created a backup of the attachments directory, you will need to restore the backup into a directory where JIRA can access it. The process of restoring the attachments backup depends on the way it was created. Usually you can use the same tool to restore the backup as the one that was used to create it (see Backing up attachments). If you are restoring the attachments into a different location (i.e. a different directory path) from where they were previously located (e.g. this will be the case when moving servers), please follow the instructions provided in Configuring attachments to change the location of the attachments directory so that JIRA can find the restored attachments. ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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