How can I recover an admin account for confluence 5.10?

[Josh Jaggat]

Hi,

I am trying to finish up upgrading and migrating to confluence 8.x but I need to backup my current version of 5.10. Is there any KB on how to backup, as well as recovering the admin account as no one seems to have permissions.

[Charlie Marriott · Accepted solution]

Hi @Josh Jaggat thank you for your message.

Given that you are on Confluence 5.10, your upgrade path begins with a move to 7.19.x:

Please see the following documentation to assist with your upgrade:

• Upgrading Confluence
• 7.19 upgrade procedure
• Confluence Server & Data Center download archives

Please also see this document on how to recover Admin user rights in 5.10.x.

I hope that helps!

Charlie

[Josh Jaggat]

Thanks @Charlie Marriott , issue is I am not sure how feasible upgrading is since I am trying to migrate to windows from linux. The server is pretty sensitive and I don't want to break confluence by upgrading

[Benjamin]

Hi Josh,

Here's the documentation to get you where you need to be.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf64/restore-passwords-to-recover-admin-user-rights-936511358.html

-Ben

[Josh Jaggat]

Thanks Ben, I am actually not sure where my confluence home directory is. I can a systemctl status to see confluence, and I can see its directory is in /opt/atlassian/confluence/bin, but I do not see any h2 databases (that I am aware of) and there isnt a standalone db from what I can tell as psql is for mattermost and I've verified that already @Benjamin 

[Benjamin]

Hi Josh,

Seems like you were able to recover. That's good to hear. Usually, you can find the DB info in the system info.