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After some of my recent articles on building a dependency map, a few people got in touch asking for tips on actually creating them. Here’s a quick way to get started.
You might have noticed the following example in my previous posts.
I created the graphic above with an amazing bit of kit called Neo4j. It’s actually an incredibly sophisticated graph database technology, so it almost feels a little sacrilegious to be using it for this.
Continue reading “Quick and dirty dependency map automation”When somebody wants to backup either the JIRA or Confluence onDemand databases.
Atlassian onDemand does not currently have any features for automating a backup of either JIRA or Confluence. To get around this we can trigger a backup from Atlassian and then automatically download the resulting file to a location of our choosing. We can take this a step further by automating this processes with a cron job on Mac or Unix, or by using Windows Task Scheduler.
These scripts were based on one given for Jira by Marlon Aguiar of Atlassian, the original can be found here. Some minor modifications were made and a separate script for Confluence was created from the resulting code.