Does not backup Confluence

[Samuli Seppänen]

At least before Nov 2016 the backup procedure for Confluence was essentially identical to that of JIRA, with just a minor URL difference:

https://${INSTANCE}/webdav/backupmanager/Confluence-backup-${TODAY}.
zip
https://${INSTANCE}/webdav/backupmanager/JIRA-backup-${TODAY}.
zip

In its current form backup.sh does not backup Confluence, even though it probably could with minor changes. What would those changes be? I could provide a patch that, say, adds command-line options "--jira" or "--confluence" that determines which service to backup.

Thoughts?

[Antony Brooke-Wood]

Hi All,

Atlassian just announced the end of WebDav support and they have also updated their script. Read about it here: https://confluence.atlassian.com/jirakb/removal-of-webdav-directory-support-for-jira-cloud-instances-859477758.html

Regards,

Antony

[Samuli Seppänen]

Yes, I am aware of that. I only gave the old WebDAV-based URLs as an example of how the earlier WebDAV-based backup script could backup both JIRA and Confluence, with just a minor modification to the URL.

The problem is that the current backup.sh in this repository (which does not use WebDAV) only backups JIRA, not Confluence.

[Antony Brooke-Wood]

I think you’ll find that they will soon carry out the same work in Confluence as well – i.e. to move it off WebDav and onto their new filestore. It has already happened for us and we were just waiting for the same thing to happen to Jira.

Regards,

Antony Brooke-Wood Chief Information Officer simpology.com.au​

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while fixing our backup script (heavily based on this one but + confluence support) I came across https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-45003 which hint me on how to get it working again

[Denis Zhuravlev]

I wrote script to support both jira_backup.sh -- backup cloud jira/wiki to s3 (1st arg = jira/wiki; 2nd arg = w/ attachments ) https://github.com/den-crane/my-stupid-scripts/blob/master/jira_backup.sh

[Dario B]

Obsolete: we don't use webdav anymore.