Automating Export of Confluence for DR

Question

Hi folks,
We use confluence heavily for runbooks and wikis. In case there is some kind of issue where we cannot reach the pages (say DNS is borked) we need to have access to our knowledge base.

I can see how to make backups on the server and that's fine and dandy. You can't read it straight out of the hat and would need to move and install on a new server.. yada yada.

Is there a way to automate PDF/HTML exports into another cloud platform in case we need to be able to read the wiki when everything is on fire and we cannot access confluence?

Thanks in advance.

Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Answer

Scripting html/pdf exports will cripple a medium+ server unless you limit it as much as possible as well.

DC will work up to a point - losing one node would be fine, but if you lose the data-centre the nodes are in, you still have a problem.  You need a redundent replicated failover in a remote location really.

Josh Steckler · Answer

This isn't possible out of the box. You'd have to do some kind of scripting, add-on or integration but I'm not aware of any specifically.

I would suggest that if your Confluence data is that vital that you look into implementing Confluence Data Center