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Content Anonymiser for Data Backups

Added by Tom Davies, last edited by Andrew Lui on Jul 14, 2008  (view change) show comment
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Introduction

A Jira data anonymiser is also available.

Atlassian may request a copy of the entities.xml file from a customer's exported zip file, in order to diagnose database corruption, or to find a bug in Confluence.

If your data is confidential, you can run this program over your entities.xml file, removing all your data and leaving only the structure of the export.

Usage

To run the anonymiser on your backup:

  1. Download the anonymiser JAR.
  2. Extract the entities.xml file from your zipped backup file to the same directory as the JAR.
  3. Use the command prompt to go to the directory where all three files are located.
  4. To create cleaned.xml, run the command:
java -jar confluence-export-cleaner-1.1-jar-with-dependencies.jar entities.xml cleaned.xml

This release of the export cleaner uses STX, a fast and efficient XML transformation technology. It should not require a lot of memory to run, even for a large backup.

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