Restore a damaged confluence site

[Marijan Grandverger]

Hi folks,

can somebody help me?

I made a big mistake in my backup/restore-session.

I am running two different instances of confluence, both with different settings concerning spaces, users and content.

Now I wanted to export one specific space from instance A and import it into instance B.

By mistake I did not export the space but the complete site. The import on instance B worked, but, as you can imagine, I have imported the complete site of instance A. Instance B is now a complete copie of instance A. That means that the previous content of instance B now is lost

Due to Murphy´s Law the last backup of instance B was corrupt and therefore the easy way to restore the site is not possible.

So is there another way to restore the previous content of instance B? As far as I can see the attachments of the previous content are still available on the filesystem, I suppose the database might also contain the corresponding entities. But how to tell Confluence to use these old settings again?

Can anybody help me?

Instance A runs on Windows with PostgreSQL, instance B on Linux also with PostgreSQL.

Kind regards

MArijan

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist- · Accepted solution]

I'm afraid not.  The import of a full site backup starts by cleaning out all the existing data.  It's been destroyed.

Your only hope is that site B has a backup, either an older xml one that is not corrupt, or a database backup.

[Marijan Grandverger]

Thanks for your reply, even if my hope for another solution is blown away.

Elder backups exist, but of course the last changes are gone, as for my private sites I do not use daily but only montly backups.

I should rethink this decision for the future ;-)