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Fortunately, since v3.3, Xray is able of taking advantage of this mechanism; on previous versions, issues would be restored but the testing data wouldn't.

Overview

Since Xray v3.3.0, you can use Jira's "Project Import" tool in a seamless manner to import projects containing Xray related data. As simple as that.

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Specify the backup file, select a project to restore and proceed to the "Import Validation" step. 

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titleBackup

Make sure you have done a backup of the attachments in the origin Jira instance and moved it to the restore attachments directory in the target Jira instance.

Jira uses this to import the issue attachments, Xray will use it as well but to restore Test Run evidence and step attachments.

The Import Tool will tell you where the restore attachments directory is located. 

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Afterward, when the import of “REQ” is finished, we need to import “XTP2”. Xray then imports the entities of “XTP2” and rebuilds all the dependencies between “REQ” and “XTP2”.


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Import Project & Summary

After proceeding and finishing the Import Project step, you finally get to the Summary step where alongside with a sum up of Jira generic information, Xray will also display how many entities were imported.

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