Migration of Personal Spaces

[Beth Chubb]

Hi,

I'm looking to use the Confluence Cloud Migration Assistant to move from Confluence Data Centre to Confluence Cloud. I need to migrate some personal spaces as well as the site spaces. As part of the migration assistant, I've selected a personal space from the list of spaces to migrate but once complete, the personal space is now a global space.

Is there a way to either migrate as a personal space or change it afterwards?

For info, the user already existed in Cloud and had a personal space (but with no content). So now there are 2 spaces for that user - one Cloud personal space and the site space with their name as the space title. 

Thanks!

[Jacques]

Hey Beth,

One way of doing this is, once the personal space has been migrated to a global space, move all content from the global space to the person's personal space. 

Follow these steps:

1. Make sure you have Confluence admin permissions and also permissions to the person's personal space.
2. Go to the main page in the global space that you wish to move to the personal space
3. From the More actions menu (the 3 dots in the upper right corner of the page) select Move.
4. In the pop-up window, select the personal space from the Spaces list where you wish to move the content to. It will also move all child pages.
5. Once the process is completed, you can delete the erroneous global space.

Hope this helps!

Jacques.

[Kirstin Seidel-Gebert]

This is a good workaround but if you have 180 users (as we have) or even more, it can be tedious to move every single personal space manually.

If there is no automated way, I'd say we go with telling every user to move their personal spaces manually. This give them a change to go over everything and only move what they still need.

[Beth Chubb]

Thanks Jacques - that would probably work as not all users have personal spaces but is there any way in the migration for them to be kept as personal spaces?

[Hana Kučerová]

Hi @Beth Chubb ,

have you tried to delete personal space, which already exists in cloud? It should be ok, if it is empty. And then migrate it from DC with CCMA?

[Beth Chubb]

@Hana Kučerová That has worked perfectly - I didn't think to try deleting the personal space. Thank you!

[Hana Kučerová]

I’m happy to help!