Introduction

The Issue Archiver plugin allows Jira admins to select issues for archives/snapshots in HTML format together with their attachments.

Archives are snapshots which the issues are deleted after the archiving process. The process is irreversible and archived issues cannot be restored.

Archives (Cannot be restored)
- For final backup before deletion of issues
- To archive old issues (JRASERVER-13129) or unwanted projects (JRASERVER-4404)
- To improve the performance of Jira (JRASERVER-5843)
Snapshots (Does not delete issues)
- For sharing the issues with non Jira users
- For offline reference when Jira cannot be accessed
- For audits
- For baseline records
- For regulatory requirements
- Reclaim the disk space (you can use a snapshot to generate the zip of all attachments of selected issues and then delete the attachments)

Key Features

Flexible ways to select the issues for archives/snapshots with 2 setting
- Basic: using simple and configurable archive settings
- Advanced: using JQL to archive issues
Shows you the number of issues selected with the selection criteria
Indicator bar to show you the progress
No limit on issue counts per snapshot & does not require huge memory

Jira admins can:
- view the archives/snapshots
- define access control to authorised users to view selected archived issues/snapshot
- download them for sharing to other users

The attachments are renamed back to their original filenames instead of attachment ID
The issues and attachments are properly organised in folder structure based on project key