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Import Confluence Space from Export XML or HTML Zip File

Carlos Castellanos _X-Link_

I exported several Confluence Spaces from NextGen (Cloud based) version. There are two spaces of interest. The export produced two .ZIP files of 12GB and 23GB.

I have been trying to import at least one of the files using the HTML importer, to no avail. That was done by extracting the -HTML.zip file from the larger zip file. I had tried importing the raw ZIP file and/or individual HMTL.zip or XML.zip internal files and still fails or simply do not complete.

What is the best way I can use to recover my spaces?

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Brant Schroeder

@Carlos Castellanos _X-Link_ welcome to the Atlassian community

Per Atlassian's documentation on exports.

The PDF option is good to use if you're trying to create a user manual from the technical documentation you keep in Confluence Cloud.
The CSV export is best if you want to import a space into another Confluence Cloud instance.
The HTML export is useful if you want to convert your space into a static website.
The XML export option works best if you need to import the space into a Confluence Data Center instance.

I would suggest trying to use your XML or if you can still export the space to do it via CSV to import it into your cloud instance.

Helpful documentation:

Kristian Klima_gtcuat

Hi @Carlos Castellanos _X-Link_

The HTML import feature was designed to import content from non-Confluence environments. The use case here is to enable (make easier) migration of content. And it works on the space level.

To move Confluence spaces between/among sites/installations on both Cloud and Data Center (and Server in the past), XML used to be the only method.

For Cloud to Cloud, you can now also use the CSV method.

So as @Brant Schroeder suggested, try importing either XML or CSV for a full space export import.

HOWEVER

If you want to export/import individual pages/sections, you can customize the export to include just the selected pages/sections as you set up the export.

You cannot import individual pages extracted from XML/CSV exports. So you need to take care of that at the export phase.

It would still produce a Zip file which you can import into another site.

Alternative 3

There's this app called Space Sync for Confluence by Ricksoft that allows you to synchronize content between two spaces - even across different Confluence sites. Every synchronization is preceeded by... moving content from one space to another.