CAUTION: Restoring a backup of an entire confluence site (consisting of multiple spaces) will:

  • Wipe out all Confluence content in the database. Ensure that your database is backed up.
  • Log you out after the restore process. Make sure you know your login details contained in the data being restored.



Atlassian suggests establishing the Production Backup Strategy for a production instance of Confluence as confluence xml backups are not recommended for non-evaluation instances.

Confluence supports backward compatibility for site backups. (But not for space backups). You can only successfully restore backups of a site from an older version of Confluence to a newer version of Confluence. For example, if you create a site backup in Confluence 2.4.3, it cannot be restored into a Confluence 2.2.2 instance. It can however, be restored into 2.4.5 or 2.5.x, because 2.4.5 and 2.5.x are newer versions of Confluence.

There are two ways to restore a site from a backup file:

  1. Restore a site from the Confluence Setup Wizard: This restores the data into a new instance of Confluence.
  2. Restore a site from the Administration Console: This restores data into the current instance of Confluence.

If your daily backup zips cannot be restored for whatever reason, but you have backups of both your database and your Confluence home directory, then it is still possible to restore from these backups.

You cannot select a single space to restore from the entire site backup when the backup contains more than one space.

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