Hello everyone! Coming back to this group on the latest updates on the Early Access Program for Confluence & Jira Backup/Restore.
We’re very happy to announce that we have released the ability to do a full backup and full restore for Confluence and Jira Software (JSW) via a command line interface to an S3 location.
We will continue to have the command line interface to a local storage location for existing customers who signed up for it earlier. However, please note, we’re working on improving the overall reliability of this solution and this point in time, we will waitlist new customers requesting the download of local storage solution.
Please scroll down for more details and the link to sign up!
As a lot of you may be aware, we’ve been on the journey of overhauling the backup & restore experience for our Jira and Confluence cloud products, starting with an emphasis on increased reliability and performance. We have done this in stages, largely because some features require us to ensure that other features are working as expected.
The features released so far :
Confluence Full Backup and Full Restore CLI (backup stored in local storage)
Jira Software (JSW) Full Backup and Full Restore CLI (backup stored in local storage)
The features planned to be released on Aug/16:
Confluence Full Backup and Full Restore (backup stored in S3)
Jira Software (JSW) Full Backup and Full Restore (backup stored in S3)
Features in pipeline (dates yet to be established)
Features available on JSM, JWM and JPD also
An incremental backup for faster backup
More granular restore
APIs
New UI for Backup and Restore
In the next few months, we will also start rolling out the above released features for more general availability on JSW and Confluence cloud products.
Please take every precaution necessary to protect your backup on your network / S3 storage.
On the signup form, we ask for a couple of items
the email address you use to login to your Atlassian product.
The site/sites you will test this against.
What products you have that you would like to test against.
And your current administrative level. This does require you to be a minimum of a Site admin, in order to run the backup.
From there, we will go through and select a number of testers. We will be selecting a variety of different instance types, in terms of the amount of data you are storing on your site. So we need all types!
If selected, we will email you a link to join our closed EAP community group, where you will have access to the new CLI, documentation, and have a place to ask questions and provide feedback directly to myself and the engineers.
Use this link to signup for early access, which includes reading and acknowledging our early access program disclaimers:
Also for more discussion on backup and restore specifically - please join this community group:
Firstly, thanks a lot for your patience through the long running EAP through these many quarters. Your continuous help and support has definitely helped us a lot.
We are looking for really active participants, who are willing to test the functionality, usability, scale, and performance of this new experience. Our hope is to continue building this new experience alongside you.
As we add new features, our hope is that you will download the new versions of the experience, test it out, and provide your feedback, bug reports, and questions. We’ll also want to hear about what you think is missing, and what else you’d like to see from us for each iteration.
Please note, since the full backup and full restore capabilities are now available via CLI as well as S3, should you like, we are happy to discuss BAU (business as usual) usage for this tool, once you test it to your satisfaction.
Cheers,
Steven
Steven Bao
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