Backing up our Confluence Site --- 120GB of Data

[Rachel Coles]

Hi All,

I know this topic has been raised a few times but some of the posts are old.

Backing up of a Confluence Cloud Site and then trying to restore spaces/pages etc.

From what I have read and looked into, the backup options of Confluence are very limited...Which I must say is actually quite disappointing from a company of this size. You can cannot restore individual pages, spaces etc. without haven't to restore the whole Confluence Site.

We have over 120GB of data sitting inside Confluence and we cannot backup this data via the STD Confluence method due to the size. 

So at present we have having to mainly backup each space individually and then manually move this data offline to make it more secure. 

Atlassian, say they are working on a better backup solution but it's not a top priority to them as mentioned in a post.  

I do know a company 'Rewind' are working on a proper Confluence backup solution but it's still in testing and Beta will be released in July 
https://rewind.com/products/backups/confluence/  

Is there another way to backup all of our Confluence data or should we stick to doing the manual backup of the data and then look into Rewind when it becomes available?  

[Shannon S · Accepted solution]

Hi Rachel,

Thank you for raising this on Atlassian Community. It's possible to restore individual space and page backups, which you mentioned. So, I believe your primary concern is your ability to back up an entire site despite its size.

Our development team is working to overhaul the backup experience, particularly for those in your situation. They added a note in the following feature request:

• CLOUD-6498 Automatic Backup generation in Backup Manager

[...] We are looking to overhaul the backup/restore experience completely, especially for those that have very large datasets. With that said, there will be a mechanism available to automate this yourself, until we build that functionality into the UI.

• https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Backup-Restore/gh-p/backupandrestore

Click the link, click Send a request to join, and we should get you in within 24 hours to review our strategy and provide feedback as we go.

I recommend joining that group so you can provide the team with your feedback directly.

I hope that helps! Please let me know if you have any questions.

Take care,

Shannon | Atlassian Cloud Support