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  1. Jira Data Center
  2. JRASERVER-29305

JIRA throws error 'org.apache.commons.compress.archivers.zip.Zip64RequiredException: entities.xml's size exceeds the limit of 4GByte' when generating XML backup data

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      Very large JIRA instance will throws error below when trying to generate the XML backup data:

       main ERROR      [jira.bc.dataimport.DefaultExportService] Error during XML backup.
      org.apache.commons.compress.archivers.zip.Zip64RequiredException: entities.xml's size exceeds the limit of 4GByte.
      	at org.apache.commons.compress.archivers.zip.ZipArchiveOutputStream.handleSizesAndCrc(ZipArchiveOutputStream.java:525)
      	at org.apache.commons.compress.archivers.zip.ZipArchiveOutputStream.closeArchiveEntry(ZipArchiveOutputStream.java:457)
      	at com.atlassian.jira.bc.dataimport.DefaultExportService.export(DefaultExportService.java:75)
      

      At the moment, instance with more than 600,000 issues is affected by this.

      As a workaround, please use the database backup instead of XML backup data.

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