pageId changed after importing into another Confluence server

[Wang Tianpeng]

Due to some organization changes, we need to move some spaces into another organization's Confluence server instance.

Follows instructions described in the following two guides:

• Export Content to Word, PDF, HTML and XML
• Restoring a Space

Everything is OK, however we found that pageID changed after importing, for example:

wiki.site1.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=41650371

Becomes:

wiki.site2.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=1868209

Is there any way to preserve pageId after importing into another Confluence instance?

Because data already exists target Confluence server instance, we cannot simply do full backup & restore, because it will erase target Confluence instance right?

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

The page id is the unique identifier for a page in a system.  You can't preserve it between systems because your target confluence has probably already have used the page id you are importing for one of its own pages.  However, the page names remain unchanged, those are what you should be using to reference pages.

You are right about full backup and restore - it will scrub everything from the target.