How to renew authentication token for the Bitbucket Cloud Migration Assistant app (BCMA)
Platform notice: Server and Data Center only. This article only applies to Atlassian products on the Server and Data Center platforms.
Support for Server* products ended on February 15th 2024. If you are running a Server product, you can visit the Atlassian Server end of support announcement to review your migration options.
*Except Fisheye and Crucible
Summary
When trying to run the Bitbucket Cloud Migration Assistant (BCMA) to migrate from Bitbucket Server/Data Center to Bitbucket Cloud, the migration plan fails and you need to renew the authentication token so the on-premise application can connect to the Cloud workspace.
Environment
This message applies to Bitbucket Server and Bitbucket Data Center.
Solution
- Open the Bitbucket Cloud Migration Assistant. Go to Settings > Migrate to Cloud.
Alternatively, navigate to <BITBUCKET_BASE_URL>/plugins/servlet/migrate#/monitor - Click Create new migration
- Click Connect to cloud
- Click Choose new cloud destination
- Click Continue
- Enter your current Bitbucket base URL into "Migrate from"
- Select your destination workspace in "Migrate to"
- Check "Allow Atlassian to access migrations data"
- Click Confirm
- Create a new migration plan