Migrate a project from a Redmine instance to another 
Added by Maurizio Totti over 12 years ago
Hi all,
I would migrate a project for a Redmine instance to another for a server consolidation task. Both the instances are heavily used. I have searched the solution for a long time, but the data model looks not able to abstract the issues from a project (like JIRA for example).
Have you found any solutions of this use case?
Thanks
Regards
Replies (8)
    
    RE: Migrate a project from a Redmine instance to another 
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    Added by Jan Niggemann (redmine.org team member) over 12 years ago
  
  Someone announced something like that somewhere here on the forums, but requests to post a link to the code were never answered.
Something like "export all project data" that could then be re-imported would be interesting...
    
    RE: Migrate a project from a Redmine instance to another 
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    Added by Maurizio Totti over 12 years ago
  
  The full export to an empty instance it's possible. I have done that with https://github.com/ludicast/yaml_db also porting data from postgresql to mysql (sigh :-((( ). My problem was the selectively export/import :-(
Thanks for your response!
Regards
    
    RE: Migrate a project from a Redmine instance to another 
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    Added by Ivan Cenov over 12 years ago
  
  I suppose simple SQL import is not possible and/or reliable. Issue and project ids may collide with these already stored in the destination database.
    
    RE: Migrate a project from a Redmine instance to another 
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    Added by Maurizio Totti over 12 years ago
  
  Me too .The issue id are not relative into project but global, and can be a cross project issue. Furthermore a issue id can be in the description or log of another issue... Very hard to solve in my opinion...
    
    RE: Migrate a project from a Redmine instance to another 
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    Added by Bruno Medeiros over 10 years ago
  
  I did something similar here:
http://www.redmine.org/boards/1/topics/8077?r=20256#message-20256
    
    RE: Migrate a project from a Redmine instance to another 
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    Added by Del Elson over 8 years ago
  
  I created this which might help some people: https://github.com/delatbabel/redmine-migrator
    
    RE: Migrate a project from a Redmine instance to another 
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    Added by Aleksandar Pavic almost 7 years ago
  
  Thanks,
migrator works well with 3.1.2 -> 3.4.6, but 
creates all tasks and notes as user whose credentials you have entered...
it's due to fact that it's working via API->API but works well and FAST!
    
    RE: Migrate a project from a Redmine instance to another 
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    Added by Arshad Mansoor almost 7 years ago
  
  Maurizio Totti wrote:
Hi all,
I would migrate a project for a Redmine instance to another for a server consolidation task. Both the instances are heavily used. I have searched the solution for a long time, but the data model looks not able to abstract the issues from a project (like JIRA for example).
Have you found any solutions of this use case?
ThanksRegards
I am also waiting for the proper solution.