Handling Confluence Backup ZIP Files During Atlassian Downtime

[Salome Brütsch]

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

[Hari Krishna]

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!