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Is it possible to move a space from one Confluence to another?

Margarita Rueda1

My team is becoming an independent business unit and we are opening a new Confluence account.

I would like to move all our current content, which is a space inside the owner company's Confluence account, to a new account under the name of this business.

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Milo Test

As an administrator you can "backup" (read export) a space and "recover" (read import) it in another instance of Confluence. You'd be wise to have both instances at the same version though.

Luiz Maia_v4bla4

Hi Margarita,

Yes, it's possible to export spaces from Confluence as XML files. You can also restore these XML backups in a new instance,

I suggest you follow the instructions described in this guide: https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF43/Exporting+Confluence+Pages+and+Spaces+to+XML

Please let us know should you have any questions.

Thanks.

Kind regards,

Luiz Maia
Atlassian Support

darrenpegg

Same versions of confluence for the sake of no worrying (same major version - worse case scenario)... User macros are replicated if any, addons are matching, users in the target confluence are created (space import). Attachments normally are included in the export so shouldn't have a worry here.

Jonathan Simonoff

As someone pointed out, this is straightforward if the two Confluences are the same major version (e.g., 5.5 and 5.7) – just do an XML export from one and import from the other. You reach the export from space admin and the import from Confluence admin.

One caveat that hasn't been mentioned – there must be no preexisting space in the target instance with the same space key. If there is one, you won't be able to import your space.

Margarita Rueda1

Thanks

Margarita Rueda1

Thank you

darrenpegg

Atlassian raining on our parade? smile

Margarita Rueda1

Hi Luiz, So I tried to do what you recommended. I got the zip file for my original Confluence space, however it seems I can not import it into the new Confluence account. I went into the Confluence admin and selected Import space. But it keeps loading and nothing happens until my session expires. Any suggestion? Thank you!

Abyakta Lenka_gzz1dj

Same here @Luiz Maia how to avoid the session expires issue . my exported space is little too large and it always end up in session times out while importing . kindly help

Thomas Robbs

That's a pretty important caveat.

It also implies that if you're consolidating spaces as part of your migration, you can't use this feature.

Amir Katz (Outseer)

Updated export method for Confluence 6.4.0:

Prerequisite - permission

Navigate to the desired space
In the bottom of the navigation pane (left side), click on Space tools (the gear icon)
Click on the Permissions tab
Make sure that you have export permission on the space, either for the group that you belong to, or to yourself as individual user

Export procedure

Go back to Space tools
Click on the Context tools tab
Click on the Export tab
Choose XML export format
Click on Next
Choose between Full Export and Custom Export
1. for Custom, make your selections
Click on Export
Export starts
When done, click on Download here
Save the zip file in a folder of your choice

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