[#JRA-1866] Backup attachments also

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Backup attachments also

Created: 19/Jun/03 09:56 AM Updated: 04/Nov/07 11:53 PM

Component/s:

Services

Affects Version/s:

2.0.2, 2.1 Pro, 2.1 Enterprise

Fix Version/s:

None

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Duplicate

This issue is duplicated by:

~~JRA-3164~~ Attachments are not backed up in scheduled backup.

Reference

This issue relates to:

JRA-3498 Ability to export attachments during XML backup

JRA-11121 Backup attachments and plugins

~~JRA-10584~~ Add a message to backup screen - "This will not back up attachments. It has to be done manually"

Participants:	Mark Michaelis, Mark Sheppard, Nick Menere [Atlassian], Owen Fellows, Scott Wolk, Thomas Watson Steen and Vince Caserta
Since last comment:	41 weeks, 2 days ago
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It would be nice if the automated backup/export service also could backup all the attachments (this should ofcause be up to the user if he wants to).

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Owen Fellows added a comment - 20/Jun/03 12:29 AM

We'll try to at this option in JIRA 2.3

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Vince Caserta added a comment - 14/Feb/04 12:11 PM

This would be really nice.
There is no way to schedule what time of day the backup of the xml file occurs (only the interval in minutes) so when one is using the OS to schedule the backup of the attachments, say every night at 2am, the momement when the two backups are taken can be hours apart.

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Thomas Watson Steen added a comment - 16/Feb/04 02:26 AM

To Vince Caserta:
Take a look at the issue reported just prior to this one: JRA-1865 about using specific time instead of delay in services.

/watson

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Mark Michaelis added a comment - 30/May/06 07:29 AM

What is the state of this very old issue? I am astonished that this is implemented in Confluence but not in JIRA...

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Scott Wolk added a comment - 27/Mar/07 09:44 PM

Very annoying issue. Why can't you guys do what confluence does? Their backup/restore is very nice

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Mark Sheppard added a comment - 02/Nov/07 06:40 AM

I just looked at my JIRA backup directory and realised that the zip files were far too small. Amazingly it was because the attachments aren't backed up! I really don't understand why such basic functionality (i.e. being able to do complete backups) is missing, especially as it's implemented in Confluence.

Is there any chance of this ever getting added? It's been over four years since this issue was opened!

And why is this prioritised as "minor"? Properly backing up data is far more important than that.

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Nick Menere [Atlassian] added a comment - 04/Nov/07 11:53 PM

Agreed, this is more than a minor issue and I have bumped up the priority.
As you know, we have a lot of open feature requests and we believe that a manual back-up of the attachments directory isn't a bad work around for the time being. (esp. as operating systems have much better backup mechanisms than we do).

We have increased the warnings, both in the documentation and JIRA itself, so hopefully Admins wont be caught out by this.

Cheers,
Nick