Is the install of an OD Confluence instance also required if only a few spaces are to be transferred?

[Deleted user]

To integrate the Confluence content from an newly merged company that has it's content in OD Confluence: Is it really neccessary to install the OD version locally on the day of migration allthough only a few spaces and not the whole site is to be transferred?

In an Enterprise it's not possible to allways upgrade to the latest version of a tool.

Concrete were have recently made the upgrade to 5.4 and now plan to integrate some spaces from the current OD in June.

[Miranda Rawson · Accepted solution]

Hi Harald,

Unfortunately space imports are not backwards compatible. One option would be to set up a separate, evaluation instance of Confluence 5.4 and import a full site XML from the OD instance. Next, export each space individually from the test instance and import that into the destination 5.4 version.

[Deleted user]

Hi!

Am I understanding that correctly:

A site backup is backward compatible, a space backup not?

Please confirm that, so I can use the workaround, allthough it seems a bit weird to me ;-)

Best Regards

Harald