Automated Confluence Cloud Backups

Mark Winston_nwz2kd

I've recently learned that Atlassian doesn't provide any official support for automated backups of Confluence and Jira Cloud applications.  However, the support team has referred me to these two options discussed here...

1. Using these Scripts.
2. Using the Automation tool.

Upon review of these two options, I'm having trouble making use of them for the following two reasons.  

1. For Confluence, both options above are creating Confluence Cloud Site backups and there is no way to import the backups if you have both Jira and Confluence Cloud as discussed here.  
2. The Automation tool creates backups, however, it provides no method to automatically download them also.  

Can someone please help confirm if my understanding above is correct?  Hopefully I'm missing something that will allow me to make use of one of these options to backup my Confluence and Jira sites. 

Any guidance is much appreciated as I need a way to do automatic backups.  I'm tagging @Stephen Sifers and @Dario B as they appear to knowledgeable about the scripts.  

Thanks for your help!

Mark

Prince Nyeche - ELFAPP

Hi @Mark Winston 

Both documentation are ways to generate and get the backup, using the script version you can automate the download to your local file system or you can simply add a get request to get the file after its generated on the script. The Automation for Jira version only triggers it, for you to download at a later time. In both situations, using a script that involves running locally, which you can add a Cron job to trigger it at certain intervals as long as your machine is turned on seems better.

Although, the system is not perfect, but i'm very sure given the limitations other users have found ways to trigger and save locally or push to AWS S3 for the downloaded backup file. The reason that you cannot really too much on this API is because its not official and when it's not official, it is subject to different changes at any point in time. However it is still useful in order to grab the data required automatedly.

Unfortunately the restore from backup for Confluence won't be available in regards to your first reason, if you have both Jira and Confluence. it's a very tricky and complicated process to restore confluence alone with the Jira Instance active. So if the concern is directed towards confluence, the scripts will indeed help perform an entire backup but it can't perform a backup of a space by space export, that's a limitation. Please also note that the script suggests a way to backup, automating it further is up to you!