Hello, everyone! I'm excited to return to the group and share the latest developments regarding our new backup and restore Admin UI experience early access program (EAP) for Jira Software & Confluence. We started rolling out the feature to a select group of customers as part of our EAP and will gradually open up the feature in beta over the next quarter and a half.
We are committed to continuing to have the command line interface to a local / S3 storage location for existing customers who were enrolled for it as of before Feb/15. However, at this point, we have paused taking new enrolments for CLI EAP. With the goal of eventually migrating all customers to our new backup and restore tooling, which will be available in Atlassian Administration (admin.atlassian.com).
As many of you know, we’ve released a ton of new backup and restore functionality in the last year:
Full backup and restore CLI (backup stored in local storage) for Confluence and Jira Software
Selective restore CLI (backup stored in local storage) for Confluence
Full backup and restore (backup stored in S3) for Confluence and Jira Software
Selective restore CLI (backup stored in local storage) for Confluence
In response to your feedback, we’ve strengthened our offering and decided to launch full backup and restore functionality in Atlassian Administration (admin.atlassian.com). This new feature set will:
Separate backup and restore functionality from download/export and upload/import tooling.
Store backups in Atlassian-owned storage for up to 14 days, allowing you to restore them with a single click—without the need for uploading or importing the backup on your part. We are particularly excited about this capability, as we anticipate it will greatly enhance both the speed and reliability of operation completions.
Include incremental media (attachment backups) that allow for faster and more accurate subsequent backups
Allow you to download and export backups to an Amazon S3 location of your choice.
Additionally, we are actively developing APIs that you can utilize to construct automation/scheduling functionalities from your end. More on this soon from my colleague @Lavanya Tejasvani as she is gearing up to get this going!
The new features will be launched behind a few guardrails, which we shall be publishing more details on soon.
As we continue to work on our roadmap for 2025+, we are exploring a number of new capabilities:
Backup and restore support for Jira Service Management Assets and other products
Incremental backups (delta backup from the previous backup) for faster RPOs
Granular restore (space level, project level etc) functionality
Experience improvements on admin.atlassian.com
For more discussion on backup and restore specifically - please join our community group:
Cheers,
Lakshmi Manasi Behl
Steven Bao
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