I'm doing a long overdue migration of an old server and Confluence 5.8.6 to a new server with Confluence 8.3.2. I'm going via a temporary version 7 install on the new server.
Importing the whole site gave an error:
Import failed. Check your server logs for more information. java.lang.RuntimeException: Could not read fields for table AO_187CCC_SIDEBAR_LINK.
I tried exporting each space individually. They imported into 7 without error, but re-exporting gave the same error as above.
I should say that the old server recently started reporting unreadable sectors on its disks, so the whole exercise is now urgent. I also cannot rule out data corruption somewhere.