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Hello everyone! Chiming in on this group to raise additional interest in our Early Access Program for New Confluence & Jira Backup/Restore now that we are close to releasing restore capabilities for Confluence.
Scroll down for more details and the link to sign up!
Before I go over the details - a quick introduction: I'm Steven Bao, a Product Manager on the Confluence Cloud team that focuses on migrations (namely Server to Cloud and Cloud to Cloud use cases like Backup/Restore, Sandbox, Consolidations). I've been working closely with fellow product managers @Vamsi Bhagi and @Arjoon Som on our new backup & restore and super excited to share it with you all for feedback!
We are completely overhauling the backup & restore experience - starting with an emphasis on increased reliability and performance. However, we have to do this in stages, largely because some features require us to ensure that other features are working as expected. For example, how we finish building the restore functionality will largely depend on the feedback that comes in on the backup functionality, and what changes we might have to make to that.
The stages will roughly follow this order:
Confluence Full Backup CLI
Jira (entire family of Jira - Jira software, JSM, JWM, etc.) Full Backup CLI < - - - We are here
Confluence Restore CLI < - - - Coming up next (Q2 2022)
Jira Software Restore CLI
As a reminder, this means that for a period of time, we are asking for you to test the backup functionality without being able to restore the data, although this is coming very soon. Once we get to the restore process, then we’ll ask you to test both of those again together.
I want to emphasize that this early access program is for taking a backup of your data. That backup is human readable and will include all of your data. Please take every precaution necessary to protect your backup on your network.
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 just to start initially, and bring in more as we roll out additional capabilities. 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:
This is a long-running EAP with multiple phases, so we will be asking you to help continuously test as we add additional features. 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.
My colleague @RJ Gazarek has created a quick demo of the new experience (Confluence), so you can get a taste of what you will be testing!
Cheers,
Steven
Steven Bao
Atlassian Team
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