General information

Available ONLY for JIRA System administrators

Create backup

Method type - POST

URL: {JIRA_URL}/rest/extender/1.0/xmlbackup/backup

Request format - JSON

Example request

{
	"fileName": "BACKUP_02.03.2019.zip"
}

Respons format - JSON (Response is send when backup was created)

Example response

{
	"filePath": "/localhost/atlassian/jira/home/export/BACKUP_02.03.2019.zip",
	"message": "Backup created",
	"status": "done"
}

Method type - POST

URL: {JIRA_URL}/rest/extender/1.0/xmlbackup/restore

Request format - JSON

Example request

{
	"fileName": "BACKUP_02.03.2019.zip",
	"license": "LICENSE FOR JIRA"
}

Respons format - JSON (Response is send when restore is accepted and run in background)

Example response

Method type - GET

URL: {JIRA_URL}/rest/extender/1.0/xmlbackup/restore/status

Respons format - JSON

Example response

How to read answers (any version of JIRA can response a little differently)

Restore is not active or restore completed

Restore in progress

This means that JIRA restores itself from the backup, check status the restore later

Method type - GET

URL:

Example response

Parameters

formatDate - optional - available value (true or empty) - if you set this parameter to true, all dates format change into string yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS