Transferring Large Attachments Folders Between Environments

Spira stores its file attachments in a dedicated folder (typically C:\Program Files (x86)\SpiraPlan\Attachments or similar) and when you move installations between servers or between our SaaS version and our self-hosted version, you need to move these attachments. Normally that's an easy process of zipping them up, copying them, and then unzipping them. However, on very large installations (e.g. 1TB or more), you may need to package the attachments into batches of smaller zipfiles to simplify the file transfer process.

Solution

To solve this problem we are providing two Windows Powershell scripts:

zip-attachment-folder-into-batches.ps1 - zips the .dat files into batches of zipfiles
unzip-attachments-in-bulk.ps1 - unzips the batches of zip files into the attachments folder

The first script will create batches of zipfiles (by default containing 250 attachments, but you can change the batch size) that contains the attachments using this numbering scheme:

dat_batch_0001.zip
dat_batch_0002.zip
...
dat_batch_9999.zip

These can then be atomically copies to the destination system and then bulk unzipped into the destination system.

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Transferring Large Attachments Folders Between Environments

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