Chapter 10.  Importing and Exporting Data in JIRA and Migrating Configuration

The data stored in JIRA is quite critical for companies, and JIRA administrators should make sure that regular backups of data are taken. In fact, it should be policy to take backups. In this chapter, we will discuss how to perform regular backups in JIRA and where these backups are stored. Most importantly, we will also discuss how to restore these backups.

There are a lot of other tools that are used in companies; tools such as Mantis and Bugzilla are quite popular bug trackers. When you move to JIRA, it would be great if your existing issues were migrated from these tools to JIRA, but migrating can be a complex task. JIRA comes with some tools to import data from ...

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