Give some advice about xml exporting and importing large Confluence spaces

[Dimitar I_ Dimitrov]

Hey Community, 

I am in the process of migrating Confluence from one DC instance to another (as an interim step to migrating to Cloud later) and I amm doing this by export-xml, then local download of the export zip, then import from the 'restore' folder of the server.

However, I do have some very large spaces, ranging from 5GB to a 35GB. 

With those I have noticed that first it takes forever to do the export, then I very often have issues in downloading the export zip. Sometimes I wait for hours and then the download still fails, which means I need to start over. 

Do you have any good advice on how to deal with large confluence xml space exports, and more specifically with making sure I can download them locally?

Thanks in advance!

Dimitar

[Pavel Junek]

Hi Dimitar,

Maybe a proxy in front of your Confluence like NGINX can cause a problem.
I recommend the XML export directly from the server - it is located in <onfluence-home>/temp/, for example using WinSCP. Attention, the exported file is here for a maximum of 72 hours, after which it is automatically deleted.

Pavel

[Dimitar I_ Dimitrov]

Hm, interesting. I did not think of that option. Thanks Pavel, I will look it up and let you folks know how it goes.

Thanks!

[Dimitar I_ Dimitrov]

@Pavel Junek is the export always set to go to the <confluence-home/temp> folder? 

[Pavel Junek]

Yes, in default yes. You can change this default setting - How to change the location of space export files on Confluence 

[Dimitar I_ Dimitrov]

Yes, I found it. Thank you!