Rewind adds backup for Jira’s Xray and ScriptRunner apps

Rewind has expanded its Jira backup product to cover Xray and ScriptRunner, two widely used Atlassian Marketplace apps that often hold regulated data and mission-critical automation. The launch arrives as more customers move to cloud and Atlassian’s Data Center end of life approaches in 2029.

Why it matters: - Xray and ScriptRunner data often sits outside Atlassian’s native backup coverage, leaving enterprises exposed when test traceability or automation breaks. - For regulated teams, those records can serve as audit evidence. - Rewind’s expanded coverage is aimed at closing that gap for Jira customers migrating to cloud.

What happened: - Rewind on Oct. 6 added backup and recovery for Xray and ScriptRunner to Rewind Backups for Jira. - The release was timed with Atlassian Team '26 Europe in Amsterdam. - The announcement comes as enterprises accelerate cloud migrations ahead of Atlassian’s March 2029 Data Center end of life.

The details: - Atlassian says 99% of customers are either in the cloud or on a path to the cloud. - Atlassian says 75% of enterprise and regulated customers are also on that path. - In Xray, tests, preconditions, test plans and test sets reference each other across release cycles. - A bulk edit, faulty script or accidental deletion can break those links. - Until now, there was no automated way to rebuild those relationships. - In financial services, medical devices and other regulated sectors, those records can be used as evidence for auditors. - In ScriptRunner, deleted or overwritten scheduled jobs and script listeners can fail silently. - Jira does not raise an error when that happens. - Without version history, admins may not know what changed or when. - Rewind now backs up Xray test data and ScriptRunner scripts, jobs and listeners daily alongside the rest of the Jira instance. - Rewind can restore a single test or script. - Rewind can also roll back a full test suite or ScriptRunner configuration to a known point in time. - Rewind rebuilds data in dependency order, in place, so links between tests, plans and executions survive the restore. - Backup and recovery for Xray and ScriptRunner are available now in the Advanced and Enterprise plans of Rewind Backups for Jira. - Rewind is showing the release at booth #201 at Team '26 Europe, RAI Amsterdam, Oct. 6–8. - More information is available at rewind.com.

Between the lines: - The product expansion is about more than backup storage. - Rewind is positioning recovery as a way to preserve the structure and logic behind Jira workflows, not just the underlying files. - The move also signals growing demand for SaaS resilience tools that protect third-party apps embedded in core enterprise processes. - Rewind said it is continuing to invest in coverage for third-party apps, with backups for Tempo planned later this year. - James Ciesielski, Rewind co-founder and CPTO, said restoring relationships and logic is the hard part, not simply getting a copy back. - Conrad Bach, Rewind CRO, said enterprise teams rely on Xray and ScriptRunner data and that Rewind aims to be the safety net behind the tools teams run on.

The bottom line: - Rewind is betting that as Jira customers move to cloud, app-level recovery for widely used add-ons will become a must-have, not a nice-to-have.