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⇱ Replicate Multiple Jira Accounts via the CData Sync CLI

Replicate Multiple Jira Accounts via the CData Sync CLI

👁 Jerod Johnson
Jerod Johnson
Director, Technology Evangelism
Replicate multiple Jira accounts to one or many databases.

CData Sync for Jira is a stand-alone application that provides solutions for a variety of replication scenarios such as replicating sandbox and production instances into your database. Both Sync for Windows and Sync for Java include a command-line interface (CLI) that makes it easy to manage multiple Jira connections. In this article we show how to use the CLI to replicate multiple Jira accounts.

About Jira Data Integration

CData simplifies access and integration of live Jira data. Our customers leverage CData connectivity to:

  • Gain bi-directional access to their Jira objects like issues, projects, and workflows.
  • Use SQL stored procedures to perform functional actions like changing issues status, creating custom fields, download or uploading an attachment, modifying or retrieving time tracking settings, and more.
  • Authenticate securely using a variety of methods, including username and password, OAuth, personal access token, API token, Crowd or OKTA SSO, LDAP, and more.

Most users leverage CData solutions to integrate Jira data with their database or data warehouse, whether that's using CData Sync directly or relying on CData's compatibility with platforms like SSIS or Azure Data Factory. Others are looking to get analytics and reporting on live Jira data from preferred analytics tools like Tableau and Power BI.

Learn more about how customers are seamlessly connecting to their Jira data to solve business problems from our blog: Drivers in Focus: Collaboration Tools.


Getting Started


Configure Jira Connections

You can save connection and email notification settings in an XML configuration file. To replicate multiple Jira accounts, use multiple configuration files. Below is an example configuration to replicate Jira to SQLite:

Windows

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<CDataSync>
 <DatabaseType>SQLite</DatabaseType>
 <DatabaseProvider>System.Data.SQLite</DatabaseProvider>
 <ConnectionString>User=admin;Password=123abc;Url=https://yoursitename.atlassian.net;</ConnectionString>
 <ReplicateAll>False</ReplicateAll>
 <NotificationUserName></NotificationUserName>
 <DatabaseConnectionString>Data Source=C:\my.db</DatabaseConnectionString>
 <TaskSchedulerStartTime>09:51</TaskSchedulerStartTime>
 <TaskSchedulerInterval>Never</TaskSchedulerInterval>
</CDataSync>

Java

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<CDataSync>
<DatabaseType>SQLite</DatabaseType>
 <DatabaseProvider>org.sqlite.JDBC</DatabaseProvider>
 <ConnectionString>User=admin;Password=123abc;Url=https://yoursitename.atlassian.net;</ConnectionString>
 <ReplicateAll>False</ReplicateAll>
 <NotificationUserName></NotificationUserName>
 <DatabaseConnectionString>Data Source=C:\my.db</DatabaseConnectionString>
</CDataSync>

To connect to JIRA, provide the User and Password. Additionally, provide the Url; for example, https://yoursitename.atlassian.net.

Configure Queries for Each Jira Instance

Sync enables you to control replication with standard SQL. The REPLICATE statement is a high-level command that caches and maintains a table in your database. You can define any SELECT query supported by the Jira API. The statement below caches and incrementally updates a table of Jira data: 

REPLICATE Issues;

You can specify a file containing the replication queries you want to use to update a particular database. Separate replication statements with semicolons. The following options are useful if you are replicating multiple Jira accounts into the same database:

You can use a different table prefix in the REPLICATE SELECT statement: 

REPLICATE PROD_Issues SELECT * FROM Issues

Alternatively, you can use a different schema: 

REPLICATE PROD.Issues SELECT * FROM Issues

Run Sync

After you have configured the connection strings and replication queries, you can run Sync with the following command-line options:

Windows

JIRASync.exe -g MyProductionJIRAConfig.xml -f MyProductionJIRASync.sql

Java

java -Xbootclasspath/p:c:\sqlitejdbc.jar -jar JIRASync.jar -g MyProductionJIRAConfig.xml -f MyProductionJIRASync.sql