Before you begin the Confluence upgrade you must back up:

  • your external database
    You must perform a manual backup of your external database and confirm that the backup was created properly. If you are unfamiliar with the backup-restore facilities of your database, you can simply restore the backup to a different system to ensure the backup worked before proceeding.
  • your Confluence Home directory
    The Confluence Home directory is the folder where Confluence stores its configuration information, search indexes and page attachments.  The location of the Home directory is stored in a configuration file called confluence-init.properties, which is located inside the confluence/WEB-INF/classes directory in your Confluence Installation directory.
    if you store attachments outside the Confluence Home directory, you should also backup your attachments directory. 
  • the Confluence installation directory 
    This is where the Confluence application files and libraries were unpacked (unzipped) when Confluence was originally installed.
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