Handling Confluence Backup ZIP Files During Atlassian Downtime

Salome Brütsch

Hello everyone,

Our startup performs weekly backups of all our Confluence spaces as ZIP files. I'm currently looking into how we could access our content in case Atlassian experiences a prolonged outage.

Has anyone implemented a process for extracting or accessing the full eQMS content from these backup ZIP files without relying on Confluence?

Are there alternative tools or workflows that could help with this?

Thanks a lot for your support!

Best,
Salome

Hari Krishna

Hi Salome,

That's a great question! While Confluence ZIP backups contain all the content, including attachments and space/page structure (in XML), they aren't immediately viewable without a Confluence instance.

Here are a few options:

- **Install a local Confluence (Data Center trial)** and restore the ZIP backup. This gives full access without relying on Cloud.
- Use custom scripts to convert XML to HTML, but formatting/macros may not render well.
- Maintain regular **HTML or PDF exports** of key spaces for offline access.
- Explore tools like **Xporter**, **Scroll Exporter**, or custom export workflows.

Hope this helps!