🛡️ Automate Jira & Confluence Cloud Backups with AWS (Open-Source Python Scripts)

[Aaron Morris]

Hi everyone! 👋

I just wanted to share some Python scripts I wrote to automate Jira Cloud and Confluence Cloud backups using AWS.

🔗 https://github.com/agile-innovations-tech/atlassian-cloud-backups

There are four scripts:

• Jira Backup Trigger:  Initiates the creation of a new Jira Cloud backup file using Jira's API.

• Jira Backup Download:  Downloads the latest backup file from Jira Cloud and stores it in AWS S3.

• Confluence Backup Trigger:  Initiates the creation of a new Confluence Cloud backup file using Confluence's API.

• Confluence Backup Download:  Downloads the latest backup file from Confluence and stores it in AWS S3.

The scripts are designed for AWS Lambda, but you could adapt the scripts to run on other platforms.

These scripts are designed using the APIs described here:

• Jira: https://bitbucket.org/atlassianlabs/automatic-cloud-backup/issues/16/endpoint-changed-for-jira-again-new-script
• Confluence: https://bitbucket.org/atlassianlabs/automatic-cloud-backup/issues/17/backup-script-for-confluence-cloud-find-it

By using AWS, you can use:

• Lambda to execute the scripts
• EventBridge to schedule the scripts
• S3 to store the backups
• and CloudWatch to monitor for backup failures.

The README in the repository contains some YouTube links for a full tutorial.

👉 If you try it out, I’d love to hear how it works for you!

💬 Feedback, ideas, or even code contributions are very welcome.

Thanks for checking it out!

[Natasha Richardson]

Hi Aaron,

Just a quick question. Does this solution work similar to backup tools in the marketplace for example revyz? 

[Aaron Morris]

@Natasha Richardson -- Great question! These scripts only automate Jira and/or Confluence's native backup capabilities.

They do not provide any of the advanced features you might get from the Marketplace.