How to restore a backup Confluence 5.9.6

[Onno van der Straaten]

I am testing backup / restore of  a Confluence 5.9.6 instance. I created a fresh 5.9.6 installation and then performed a restore noticing that Confluence would no longer run. Confluence shows an error message in browser

NumberFormatException: For input string: "censehere"

 censehere is most like short for licensehere so this seems to be a license issue of some sort that causes Confluence to no longer start.

I think I expected this to just work. It is a bit scary that restore is not working.

My backup / restore procedure always worked. I just dump the postgresql db and zip the home directory, attachments, confluence.cfg.xml. For restore the reverse.

What is the correct procedure for backup and restore? In Confluence 5.9.6.

[AnnWorley]

Hi Onno,

It sounds like you have the right idea but "something" happened with your PostgreSQL restore. Here is the doc for Confluence 5.9.x: Migrating Confluence Between Servers

I hope you are creating a staging environment so you can test an upgrade. Confluence 5.9.6 has passed End of Life and there are some great new features in the newer versions: Confluence 6.6 Release Notes

Thanks,

Ann