Staging (migration between instances of the same type)

Steps overview 

Before you proceed, please read. the following instruction carefully and copy all steps to the clipboard to keep it on hand.

1. Create application backup (production environment)
2. Create Jira backup (production environment) 
3. Restore Jira backup on a staging environment
4. Install the application on a staging environment
5. Restore application backup on a staging environment

Step 1 - create BigPicture backup and download it

1. Go to BigPicture App Configuration > Advanced > Database dumps
   
2. Press the New dump button, add a description and confirm (Create dump button)
   
   
3. The new database dump should appear at the top of the list of backups (page refresh may be needed).
4. Press the Download button to save the backup file to disk.

Step 2 - create a Jira backup and download it

Cloud

Go to System > Backup Manager > Create backup for cloud 

Server

Go to System > Backup system > Backup 

Step 3 - restore Jira backup on a staging environment

Cloud

Go to System > Restore System > Import data (import the Jira backup file)

Server

Go to System > Restore system > restore using the Jira backup file (Restore)

Step 4 - install BigPicture on a staging environment

Cloud

Go to Jira Apps > Find New Apps and search for the BigPicture plugin.

Server

Go to System > Manage apps and install BigPicture.

Step 5 - restore BigPicture backup on a staging environment

1. Go to BigPicture App Configuration > Advanced > Database dumps
2. Upload the app database dump (Import button)
   
   
   
3. Press the Restore button in the line with the backup name 
   
4. Confirm the next step by selecting Migrating between instances, e.g., production to staging, and press the Next button
   
5. Check the confirmation box and press the Next button
   

6. Confirm the operation by entering the word RESTORE and press the Restore button

   If the BigPicture instance is not new and some work has already been done on it, this work will be overwritten! BigPicture will automatically dump its current state before performing the restore operation (so that the process can be reversed).

   

7. The database recovery process will start
   
   

   After the recovery process is complete, the migration from one instance to another is over. You can go to the BigPicture application and verify the correctness of the data.

Additional information 

Instance status after restore

Any integration instances after restore operation will be in a “not operational” state.
This mechanism is to prevent a situation where two applications make changes in the same integration instance at the same time.

To activate selected integrations, move the switch in the Active column in the App Configuration > Integrations > Connections panel:

Data center vs server

If the restore process is performing on the DC machine, but the dump file was done on the server machine, a reinstall process of the application will be required:

Application version mismatch