 <p>You will find a nice tutorial here: <a href="http://www.jusuchyne.com/codingforme/2012/12/jira-migrating-certain-projects-from-instance/" rel="nofollow">http://www.jusuchyne.com/codingforme/2012/12/jira-migrating-certain-projects-from-instance/</a></p> <p>As described <a href="https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/24187/is-there-a-tool-or-method-to-export-a-project-from-one-instance-of-jira-test-and-import-the-project-into-another-jira-instance-production" rel="nofollow" title="here">here</a>, there is a Plugin in the Atlassian Marketplace, that lets you copy the configuration: <a href="https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.awnaba.projectconfigurator.projectconfigurator" rel="nofollow">https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.awnaba.projectconfigurator.projectconfigurator</a></p>