How to handle team calendars when migrating to a new confluence instance

William Scarce

Hi All,

Our company has 2 confluence instances (seperate) and are in the midst of migrating one to the other. We understand that the spaces are a simple xml file transfer from CFL A to CFL B. Simple as long as versioning and add-ons match up, which they do.

Our question is how should we handle the migration of our team calendars? Are they treated the same as a space? Meaning is it a simple file transport, or is there something more difficult involved?

Thanks!

Ryan Goodwin

Hi William,

The solution here is to export the calendars to ical. Yes, this is time consuming but due to the way calendars are stored (in the bandana table in the database) there is no easy way to extract the information. The ical export is the safest, quickest way out there.

If you have tons of users with calendars, I might advertise that users are responsible for bringing over their calendars. I'm not even sure if admins can access all the calendars out there, but if that's the case, the admin would need to subscribe to a calendar, then export it. Rinse repeat.

https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/TEAMCAL/Exporting+Team+Calendars+Content+to+Other+Calendars