User Submitted Backup & Restore Scripts
These scripts are user-submitted and should be used with caution as they are not covered by Atlassian technical support. If you have questions on how to use or modify these scripts, please post them to Atlassian Answers.
Delete Old Backups — Wscript Script On Windows
This script examines backup filename and deletes them if necessary, it may need to be edited.
'If you want 3 day old files to be deleted then insert 3 next to Date - "your number here"
'This script will search out and delete files with this string in them ".2005-12-04-" This of course depends on the number you enter.
'You can always do a wscript.echo strYesterday or strFileName to see what the script thinks you are searching for.
dtmYesterday = Date - 3
strYear = Year(dtmYesterday)
strMonth = Month(dtmYesterday)
If Len(strMonth) = 1 Then
strMonth = "0" & strMonth
End If
strDay = Day(dtmYesterday)
If Len(strDay) = 1 Then
strDay = "0" & strDay
End If
strYesterday = strYear & "-" & strMonth & "-" & strDay
strFileName = "C:\test*." & strYesterday &"-*"
Set objFSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
objFSO.DeleteFile(strFileName)
Delete Old Backups — Basic Bash Script For Linux
Old XML backups can be deleted automatically by inserting a nightly or weekly automation script or cron similar to the following:
ls -t <path to your backup dir>/* | tail -n +6 | xargs -i rm {}
Or, using the older form of the tail command if your system does not support the standard form:
ls -t <path to your backup dir>/* | tail +6 | xargs -i rm {}
Delete Old Backups — Advanced Bash Script For Linux
Old XML backups can be deleted automatically by inserting a nightly or weekly automation script or cron similar to the following. Set the BACKUP_DIR and DAYS_TO_RETAIN variables to appropriate values for your site. Between runs, more files than DAYS_TO_RETAIN builds up.
#!/bin/sh
# Script to remove the older Confluence backup files.
# Currently we retain at least the last two weeks worth
# of backup files in order to restore if needed.
BACKUP_DIR="/data/web/confluence/backups"
DAYS_TO_RETAIN=14
find $BACKUP_DIR -maxdepth 1 -type f -ctime +$DAYS_TO_RETAIN -delete
Manual Database & Home Backup — Bash Script For Linux
This backs up a mySQL database and the Confluence home directory.
#!/bin/bash
CNFL=/var/confluence
CNFL_BACKUP=/backup/cnflBackup/`date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S`
rm -rf $CNFL/temp/*
mkdir $CNFL_BACKUP
mysqldump -uroot -p<password> confluence|gzip > $CNFL_BACKUP/confluence.mysql.data.gz
tar -cjvf $CNFL_BACKUP/data.bzip $CNFL > $CNFL_BACKUP/homedir.status
Backup by Date — Postgres
export d=`date +%u`
mkdir -p /home/backup/postgres/$d
sudo -u postgres pg_dumpall | bzip2 > /home/backup/postgres/$d/sql.bz2