How to backup only Confluence admin settings / configuration?

Question

Hi,

how can I backup / restore only the whole admin settings / configuration (including installed plugins?) of a Confluence instance?

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

Same answer - there's no function for it, and the data is scattered through many tables, so even digging it out with SQL is not particularly easy (and there's no way to restore SQL into another confluence anyway)

D. Brutscher · Answer

I do not need a end-user-answer 
 I'm interested in a developer / admin answer, I think everything is stored in a specific database table or something like that...

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

There is no function for doing that.  You can backup a space, or everything.