Migrating from Confluence Server to Confluence Cloud

[Shaun Parker]

Hi.

We are going to be migrating from Confluence Server to the Cloud in the coming months. I need to know whether we can still keep the Confluence Server version as read-only so that this can be used to view historical data.

If we can do this, how do we go about this but more importantly, will there be a cost to keep the read-only version?

Thanks in advance.

Shaun Parker

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

A commercial Confluence licence will suit you fine here I think.  They give you a year of maintenance, but at the end of the year, if you do not renew, Confluence continues to work.  You wont be able to upgrade it to any version released after the licence expires and you won't be supported by Atlassian, but it will work.

So, when you move to cloud, do the export/import, check Cloud is working for you, then change the access to the server system to read-only (you may have to plough through a lot of space permissions to remove all the users and groups, but we don't know how you currently have it set up, so we can't be sure if that is needed or you could just delete some groups etc), then forget it - it'll work "in perpetuity"