Backing up and restoring JIRA

For any applications running in a production environment, it is critical that their data is backed up regularly, so that they can be restored in case of a disaster.

The first thing you will need is to have a disaster recovery plan in place. This plan should outline the details of the strategy in place to back up JIRA's data and where the backups should be stored, and the recovery process of restoring the data. In context of JIRA, there are typically two items you will need to backup:

• Database: This is where JIRA stores most of its critical data, such as issues and configuration settings. It is recommended to use the native database backup tools available for your database (for example, mysqldump for MySQL).

• JIRA_HOME: This is where JIRA stores other important files, such as attachments and third-party add-ons. Since this is a directory sitting on the filesystem, you will need a native tool to back up the files (for example, Scheduled Tasks in Windows).

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