Missing attachments and images after license expired has been renewed.

Question

Hello,

Recently my 30 day trial license has expired.

I did the following

a) Generate a new license for confluence.

The existing file based images and attachment are no longer available.

Any idea how to recover to attachments and images?

Thanks

Calvin

Igor M_ · Answer

Nope should work fine, you only need to copy attachment folder and overwrite the one on the server, so even if you just had a copy of this folder somewhere, it would be enough.

having your own manual backup is definitely good and recommended once your instance grown beyond few thousand pages, this removes constrains on Confluence resources associated with built in backup feature.

So action plan:

* Backup your current Confluence home directory and DB
* Copy <Confluence home>/attachments from your backup and overwrite/merge with the one you have on server
* Reindex Confluence from General Configuration > Indexing

hope this helps

Regards,

Igor

calsaviour low · Answer

I see.

The backup i have was done manually instead of using the confluence backup feature.

So this is the predicament i am facing. Below are the steps i am thinking to run

1. Create backup for current confluence (using the confluence feature)

2. Manually restore the attachment directory using my own backup through the command terminal

3. Restore the backup in Step 1.

4. Then run the re-index.

Would this cause any issues?

Igor M_ · Answer

You might need to do a re-index after restoring attachments to make sure these are picked.

Let me know if you have any questions

Regards,

Igor