JIRA 4.3 : Disabling Auto-Export
This page last changed on Feb 14, 2011 by ggaskell.
When upgrading JIRA, one points the new JIRA installation at the old JIRA database. JIRA will automatically make any structural database modifications required to support new JIRA features. To be safe, JIRA first tries to create an XML backup of your data at the point just before the upgrade. This would allow you to 'roll back' to the old JIRA version, should anything go wrong. Sometimes the automatic XML backup procedure fails, often resulting from characters in the database which cannot be represented in XML — such as non-displayable control characters that have been 'cut-and-pasted' into a JIRA field. In these circumstances, you can force the upgrade to proceed by editing atlassian-jira/WEB-INF/classes/jira-application.properties, and setting jira.autoexport=false. After having successfully upgraded JIRA, it is best to remove this parameter as it should no longer be required. If you have any upgrade problems not covered here or in the upgrade documentation, please contact us — we're happy to help. |
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