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Some pages do not appear after space import and restriction removal

Pavel_9vgymw

Hi everyone,

I have imported a space from a compatible Confluence-Server export file (name: Confluence-space-export-nnnnn-nn.xml.zip).

The import was conducted from the "General configuration -> Backup & restore -> Import from the home directory" admin section (import file size is 4GB, it was stored in the restore directory).

The import was successful (no errors occur during the import).

I resetted the newly imported space permissions from "General configuration -> Space permissions -> Recover Permissions" admin area.

The site is now visible (including attachments).

The problem:

There were a few restricted pages, which I saw in the "Space tools -> Permissions -> Restricted pages".
I deleted all restrictions, but the pages are still not visible.
The content resp. the pages are imported, because I can find them in the database.

Is there a way to fix this issue?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Kind regards

Pavel

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Pavel_9vgymw

The solution that worked for me was the following: directly in the database I searched for the pages that are not visible and checked if there were any (old) CONTENT_PERM_SET entries. After deleting the entries and restarting the Confluence instance, the pages were visible again and I was able to restrict them again.

Lessons learned:

CONTENT_PERM_SET entries are not being (?) correctly deleted after import
as Nitin suggested - remove all restrictions before export - this will safe an enormous amount of time and effort after import

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Nitin Rastogi_6xmalr

Hello @Pavel

I just checked the issue posted by you and can see there's already a bug logged for the issue where restricted pages are not exported as part of Space XML export in Confluence Data Centre.

As a workaround you need to remove restrictions on Pages before initiating export of space instead of removing restrictions after import.

Let me know if this helps.

Thanks

Nitin Rastogi

Pavel_9vgymw

Hi Nitin,

thanks for the response.

For future imports I'll remove the restrictions prior export, but now the import is already done, I can not revert it anymore, since the space is already in use in the new server. :-(

So there is now way to view this pages again, except fetch the content from the database and recreate the page manually?

Thanks and regards

Pavel

Pavel_9vgymw

Lessons learned:

CONTENT_PERM_SET entries are not being (?) correctly deleted after import
as Nitin suggested - remove all restrictions before export - this will safe an enormous amount of time and effort after import

Nitin Rastogi_6xmalr

Hi Pavel,

Yes, since the export is already imported and in use, restricted pages needs to be created manually if required in imported space.

Thanks

Nitin Rastogi

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