Archive a project
Space archiving is only available on Premium and Enterprise plans. If you archive a space and then move to a Standard plan, you can still access the archive and restore archived spaces. However, you can’t archive new spaces on a Standard plan. Explore Jira Cloud plans
As an admin in Jira, you can archive inactive spaces along with their work items, components, attachments, and versions. This won’t affect associated schemes, workflows, work types, or any content that is shared with other spaces.
When a space is archived, its work items won’t appear in basic or advanced search results. You can still access these work items through direct links, but you won’t be able to edit them.
It's still possible for users to access the details of an archived space. They can do this through the API if they had these permissions before archiving it. They'll still have access to the space's schemes, owner, who archived the space, and when. To restrict all access, you'll need to edit the permissions on your space before archiving it.
Jira and site admins can archive and restore company-managed and team-managed spaces. Space admins can only archive team-managed spaces. The same applies to moving company-managed and team-managed spaces to trash and restoring them.
Read more about managing global permissions and project permissions.
As a Jira or site admin, you can access the archive and:
view when a space was archived
view which user archived a space
restore a space that was archived
To archive a space:
Next to Spaces in the sidebar, select More actions (•••), then Manage spaces.
Find your space and select More actions (•••), then Archive. A confirmation dialog appears.
Select Archive.
To restore a space:
Select Settings (), then Spaces.
Select Archive from the sidebar.
Find your space and select More actions (•••), then Restore.
If a space has invalid epic-link relationships, these links will not be recovered when the space is restored. More about invalid epic-link relationships
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