Migrating multiple spaces to new server and into a single space

[Ellen]

Hello,

I'm working on a project to migrate from one Confluence server to a new dataserver instance.
Let's say I have 5 spaces (1-2-3-4-5) in the old server, but they need to be 2 spaces (6-7) in the new dataserver instance.

So spaces 1-2-3 will combine to make space 6, and spaces 4-5 will combine into space 7.

I found options to migrate one-on-one (like here), so I'd get 5 spaces in the new dataserver.

I found this question: Migrating content from multiple spaces into one sp... (atlassian.com) - but that seems to address only combining spaces on the same (data)server.

Does anyone have any tips how I could possibly combine the two?

Or would it be best to do it in two steps, first copying over everything, and then combining it?

[Marc - Devoteam · Accepted solution]

Hi @Ellen 

The 2-step approach is the way to go.

Just import all your spaces.

Then you have 2 options:

1. Create new spaces and move the required content to this new space
2. Keep a space and move the content into that space. E.g. keep space 1 and move the content from 2 and 3 into space 1

The choice how to combine spaces, is yours in my opinion.

[Ellen]

Thank you very much! I will go for the 2-step approach and think on what's preferable for the second step :)