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Handling Confluence Backup ZIP Files During Atlassian Downtime

Handling Confluence Backup ZIP Files During Atlassian Downtime

Hello everyone,

Our startup performs weekly backups of all our Confluence spaces as ZIP files. I'm currently looking into how we could access our content in case Atlassian experiences a prolonged outage.

Has anyone implemented a process for extracting or accessing the full eQMS content from these backup ZIP files without relying on Confluence?

Are there alternative tools or workflows that could help with this?

Thanks a lot for your support!

Best,
Salome

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Hi Salome,

That's a great question! While Confluence ZIP backups contain all the content, including attachments and space/page structure (in XML), they aren't immediately viewable without a Confluence instance.

Here are a few options:

- **Install a local Confluence (Data Center trial)** and restore the ZIP backup. This gives full access without relying on Cloud.
- Use custom scripts to convert XML to HTML, but formatting/macros may not render well.
- Maintain regular **HTML or PDF exports** of key spaces for offline access.
- Explore tools like **Xporter**, **Scroll Exporter**, or custom export workflows.

Hope this helps!

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Hi @Hari Krishna ,

I came across your answer during my search for a same issue of @Salome Brütsch

Do you know if there is still an option to have Data Center trial? I think there is no option to buy it now

Do you have more ideas I can use?

@Salome Brütsch can you share what you chose to do?

Thanks!!

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Hi @Tzviki Horowitz

In addition to the ZIP backups, we chose to create a PDF backup.
The files are quite large, but the process works.

Best,

Salome

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Hi @Salome Brütsch

Do you have automating process for creating these PDF files?

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yes we wrote our own script which downloads them automatically every week.

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