Purpose

This will allow you automatically create space exports of all spaces with just one command. Modified from here: http://www.antelink.com/blog/how-automatically-export-full-confluence-space.html

Solution

• Create the following script, and save it as backup.sh (don't forget to modify the first 5 lines to fit your environment!):

  #!/bin/bash
    
  ### /!\ Don't forget to adapt the following 5 lines /!\
  CONFLUENCE_BASH='/Users/test/AtlassianApps/SupportTools/confluence-cli-4.4.0/confluence.sh'
  STORE_DIRECTORY='/Users/test/AtlassianApps/SupportTools/confluence-cli-4.4.0/backup'
  SERVERLOCATION='http://localhost:8574/c574'
  USERNAME='admin'
  PASSWORD='admin'
    
  ########################################################
    
  set -u
  set -e
    
  BACKUP_DIRECTORY="$STORE_DIRECTORY/confluence_space_backup-`date +%Y%m%d`"
  mkdir $BACKUP_DIRECTORY
  if [ $? -ne 0 ]
  then
      echo "CRITICAL - `date` - problem during the creation of the directory $BACKUP_DIRECTORY"
      exit 1
  fi
    
  LIST_SPACES=`$CONFLUENCE_BASH --action getSpaceList --personal --server "$SERVERLOCATION" --password "$PASSWORD" --user "$USERNAME" | tail -n+3 |  awk 'n>=1 { print a[n%1] } { a[n%1]=$0; n=n+1 }'`
  if [ $? -ne 0 ]
  then
      echo "CRITICAL - `date` - problem during retrieving the spaces list"
      exit 1
  fi
  echo "DEBUG - `date` - success to retrieve the spaces list"
    
  printf %s "$LIST_SPACES" | while IFS= read -r line
  do
      SPACE_SHORTNAME=`echo $line | cut -d ',' -f1 | sed -e "s/\"//g" | sed -e "s/ /_/g"`
      SPACE_LONGNAME=`echo $line | cut -d ',' -f2 | sed -e "s/\"//g" | sed -e "s/ /_/g"`
      SPACE_BACKUP_FILE="$BACKUP_DIRECTORY/$SPACE_LONGNAME.zip"
            
      echo "DEBUG - `date` - start to save the space $SPACE_SHORTNAME as $SPACE_BACKUP_FILE"
      $CONFLUENCE_BASH --action exportSpace --space "$SPACE_SHORTNAME" --file "$SPACE_BACKUP_FILE" --server "$SERVERLOCATION" --password "$PASSWORD" --user "$USERNAME" > /dev/null
      if [ $? -ne 0 ]
      then
          echo "CRITICAL - `date` - problem during retrieving the spaces list"
          exit 1
      fi 
             
  done

• Run the script, by "cd" to the directory containing this script, and run this:

  ./backup.sh