Temporary pause on editing

[Ellen]

Hello,

I am prepping for a migration of our Confluence server to a new server.

Because this will take some time, I would like to basically implement a freeze on the old server so no users can make edits anymore, to prevent information loss during this migration.

The idea is something along the lines of:

Monday: start the freeze, no edits possible anymore

Tuesday: do the actual migration

Wednesday: check if everything is working alright

Thursday: End the freeze, users can start editing on the new server

I have approx. 250 users and 15 spaces in this migration.

I've looked around and the simplest way I could find is to remove editing rights from all usergroups, in global access and space-specific access. Then grant those rights again post-migration.

Is there any other way to do this that's even simpler? Thank you very much.

[Aron Gombas _Midori_ · Accepted solution]

On Server, removing the edit permissions is the best approach.

If you were on Data Center, that supports a dedicated read-only mode!

I am not sure if Atlassian licensing allows this (I'd tend to think it does), but you could even try to:

1. Add a DC trial license to your existing Confluence
2. Turn on the read-only mode
3. Migrate the stuff

[Ellen]

Thank you!

The current/old instance is Server, and we're migrating to Data Center. 

Removing edit permissions it is, then.