Confluence Backup Authentication Errors

[Marcel Sommer]

Hello everyone,

I´d like to automate the backup of our Confluence Cloud instance. I saw a thread at Atlassian Community where a script was recommended. I followed the steps mentioned there, created an API-Token, added all relevant information, made sure my firewall is open but I always receive an error response and I dont really understand where I failed to set it up correctly.
I wanted to use the script on a linux VM on a cron job.

I would appreciate if you could help me in this case.
Looking forward to hear from you.

Best wishes
Marcel

[Dario B]

Are you sure you created an API Token and not an API Key? The error returned is 401 unauthorized.

for details see: https://support.atlassian.com/atlassian-account/docs/manage-api-tokens-for-your-atlassian-account/

[Marcel Sommer]

Hello Dario,

I already fixed it.

I am sorry I forgot to close the issue.

The problem was that in the PowerShell version of the script the $account variable wasnt correctly. I filled it in like it was mentioned in the example. But apperently you dont have to use whateverproceeds.atlassian.net, you have to use ‘whateverproceeds’ to make it work. I found out that on a certain point in the script the variable was modified again into something like whateverproceeds.atlassian.net.atlassian.net and thats why it didnt work.

Anyways thank you for your reply and have a great week :)

Best wishes

Marcel

[Marcel Sommer]

fixed