clone vm

[Nathan Hans]

I'm trying to clone the VM my confluence is on so I can have a development server to test on, i'm not having success and was wondering if you had a guide on how to do this or if it is even possible.

Thanks

[Davin Studer]

This is what I do to create/refresh our dev server. This is based on the steps from this document.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf58/migrating-confluence-between-servers-771893123.html

• Install the same version as is currently in prod to the non-prod server.
• Launch Confluence in a browser to configure the install. You will need to visit my.atlassian.com to get a developers license for Confluence.
• Put the license into the web page and start a Production Installation
• Stop Confluence on the non production server.
• Take a backup of the production Confluence database.
• Delete the Confluence database on the non production server.
• Restore the backup of the production database to the non production server.
• Edit the confluence.cfg.xml file in the home directory of the non productions server and ensure the database connection is not pointed to production.
  • The home directory location is stored in a configuration file called confluence-init.properties, which is located inside the confluence/WEB-INF/classes directory in your Confluence Installation directory.
• Zip the Confluence home directory on the production server.
• Copy the zip file from the production server to the non production server.
• Unzip the file and move all of the contents except the index folder and the confluence.cfg.xml to the home directory on the non production server.
• Delete the index folder on the non production server and then create a new folder called index
• Move the edge and plugin folders from the production index folder to the non production index folder that you just created.
• Run these two sql statements against the non-production database
  • delete from Confluence.dbo.BANDANA where BANDANAKEY = 'atlassian.confluence.smtp.mail.accounts'
  • delete from Confluence.dbo.BANDANA where BANDANAKEY = 'atlassian.confluence.space.mailaccounts'
• Restart the Confluence service.
• Set the Server Base Url in Confluence Admin -> General Configuration
• Go to Confluence Admin -> Administration -> Content Indexing and rebuild the index.