Synchronizing two Confluence Instances

Question

Hi all,

Is there any possibility that we can share our COnfluence Pages on one Server with another Confluence Server used at a separate company (out of our network) in China.
Currently we share documents by exporting contents as PDF but we want to use some synchronization Plugin so that other Confluence Server (owned by Chinese company in China) get all content updates from our Confluence Instance.

Note: these two confleunce server are do not share any network or cluster environment. because they are two completely independent instances run by two different companies.

Thanks for your answers.

roman_l0djep · Answer

Hi Aley, I would second this approach as well.

If you have two Confluence instances connected with application links, you can use Scroll Versions with Remote Publishing Endpoint to publish spaces from one instance to another.

More information about remote publishing with Scroll Versions can be found here.

Hope this helps.

Roman.

Sloan N_ B_ · Answer

Hi Aley, all you could do is connecting the two Confluence instances via an Application Link. That would require that the Confluences are at least reachable on the Web, so they "see each other". When linked you would see activity of both Confluence in the Activity Stream Gadget.

Does the instances have a similar set of usernames? If yes you could do an Application Link with impersonation. If no, users would need to authenticate their login.

Users without an account on both instances would not benefit on an application link. Supplying access to users that need the documents could be an solution.

Here is the documentation for Application Links in Confluence: https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/linking-to-another-application-360677690.html

vitaliy zapolskyy · Answer

Native approach is to use space export-import

https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/restoring-a-space-152036.html

there are some restrictions however. to make it easier Chinese company may want to run a separate Confluence instance 100% compatible with yours (version, DB, plugins).

Alternatively, do they really need to import content to Confluence?

Since currently they're happy with PDF, I guess, they don't need to edit your content.

Therefore you can mirror your site with wget and they could display static content.