New API Endpoint for Confluence Cloud Backup

[Michael]

Powershell 

Does anyone have the latest API endpoint for triggering Confluence Cloud backups via REST API? The old /wiki/rest/obm/1.0/runbackup no longer works. Looking for a way to automate backups using an API.

Thanks in advance!

[Jonas Krimmer]

Hi @Michael,

For our Confluence instance, the old /wiki/rest/obm/1.0/runbackup API endpoint still seems to work with the Powershell script backup-confluence-api-token.ps1 if you replace

$backupReady = $statusContent.alternativePercentage -eq "100%"

by

$backupReady = $statusContent.alternativePercentage -eq "100"

i.e., if you remove the '%' that used to be part of "$statusContent.alternativePercentage". However, note that "alternativePercentage" only takes the values 0 and 100.

This snippet can be found in line 54 of backup-confluence-api-token.ps1

I hope this still helps.

Kind regards,

Jonas

[Johannes Heinzl _SPG_]

In addition

• My powershell TLS request said it failed so i set the version to TLS 1.2 right in the beginning
• I also saw a responsecode 406 after the first run seem to be working - there i remembered that you can only trigger a backup only each 24h but it is actually available for download - so a try catch helps here as well in case the script needs to be re-executed

...

$headers = @{
    "Authorization" = "Basic $auth"
    "Content-Type" = "application/json"
    "Accept" = "application/json"
}

[Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12

...

try

{

    # Create a Confluence Cloud backup

    $backupResponse = Invoke-WebRequest -Method POST -Uri $backupEndpoint -Headers $headers -Body $bodyjson

    # This will only execute if the Invoke-WebRequest is successful.

    $statusCode = $backupResponse.StatusCode

} catch {

    $statusCode = $_.Exception.Response.StatusCode.value__

}

# Check if backup creation was successful

if (($statusCode -eq 200) -or ($statusCode -eq 406)) {

    # Wait for the backup to be ready

    $backupReady = $false
    
    ...

[Fabio Racobaldo _Catworkx_]

Hi @Michael ,

did u read the following article https://confluence.atlassian.com/cloudkb/automate-jira-confluence-cloud-backups-1488597169.html ?

It seems to be available just for enterprise license.

Hope this helps,

Fabio