Clone existing confluence to new VM

Question

Hi People,

we are running a productive instance of Confluence (among others) and would need a clone of that instance to test upgrading, installing new plugins etc.

The database is in the VM itself.

What I would do is cloning the VM, changing IP and machine specific settings in /var/atlassian/application-data/confluence.cfg.xml

Anything else to do there?

Best regards

David

Lionel Seaw · Answer

Hi. Did you manage to solve this? having the same issue here

Software Licenses Virtamed · Answer

Thanks for the reply!

Now what I would like to do is having a 1:1 clone for the start.

Can't I just clone the virtual machine with Confluence on it and then adapt some setting like IPs. trial license etc?

Pete Singleton · Answer

We do this quite regularly, onto a new VM:

* Shut down production instance
* Take database export (we use Oracle)
* Take backup (using tar) of the Confluence filesystem and tomcat instance
* Start Prod instance
* Import database into new schema 
* Copy tar of filesystem to new VM and unzip
* Update confluence.cfg.xml to reflect new database schema name
* Update tomcat server.xml to reflect new VM host/URL
* Start test instance
* Apply development licence

You only need to copy the Tomcat instance the first time you do this.  One subsequent copies you only need to do the Jira home directory and database.