Tools to migrate data from our cloud to a small on-premises separate confluence.

Kimberly Kindle

We have to stand up a totally separate on-premises Confluence in a different environment. We currently have some data in our current cloud instance that must be migrated.  Are there any tools or directions for that?

After migration, we will need to sanitize or overwrite that cloud area.  Are there tools/directions for that?

Valerie Knapp_gp7rpj

Hi @Kimberly Kindle , welcome to the Atlassian Community and thanks for your post.

To migrate the Confluence cloud site / content to data center, you can follow this guidance, maybe you already found this - https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/migrate-from-confluence-cloud-to-data-center-298979321.html 

As the guide explains, you can either do the whole site or migrate space by space but it depends a bit on your setup. If the data center instance already has some spaces, you might need to do a space by space migration so you don't run into problems with duplicate keys.

Then, in terms of resetting the cloud site, you can just delete the product - https://support.atlassian.com/atlassian-cloud/kb/resetting-your-site-if-you-only-have-one-cloud-product-on-the-instance/ and then re-add it. It depends, again, on what you actually want to achieve. If you want to delete everything and start over, this could be a good option. If you need to keep some things and not others, you are probably looking at a more manual process of going through and removing the stuff you don't want.

Anyway, if you need help, you can always ask here.

I would say though, if you have any budget at all, typically these kind of migrations can be complicated to do without a solution partner. You could approach one in your area, if you want - https://partnerdirectory.atlassian.com/ 

I appreciate this isn't an option for everyone.

Best wishes