JIRA 4.0 : Disabling Auto-Export
This page last changed on May 03, 2009 by rosie@atlassian.com.
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 because of characters in the database that cannot be represented in XML (typically non-displayable control characters that have been cut-and-pasted in). 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. Once you have upgraded JIRA, successfully, it is best to remove this parameter, as it is no longer needed. 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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