Copying a space - Ondemand

[RPT Admin]

Does anyone have step-by-step instructions how to copy a space using Confluence OnDemand. There is some excellent documentation on copying a space into a new site - but what I want to do is to copy a space (so that I can capture the audit trail, frozen at a specific moment in time) and then archive it as part of a formal audit trail. I will then continue developing another version of the same space, using the same site.

The stumbling block is the error message that I get when trying to upload the exported space back to the original site: "A space with the Key XXX already exists".

Prior to uploading, I edited entities.xml to amend all reference to the old spacekey and changed them to a new, unique, spacekey. But I still got the error message.

Unfortunately, using the download version is not an option for me, so I can't use the copy space plugin.

[Peter Van de Voorde · Accepted solution]

Hi Alex,

Did you edit the other files in the zip file too?

Best regards,

Peter

[RPT Admin]

Ahh ... no. Just the xml. What other files do i need to edit?

[Peter Van de Voorde]

You need to edit the exportDescriptor.properties too, it also contains a spacekey reference.

[RPT Admin]

Sorted, thank you.

[Bob Swift]

You might find that copySpace from Confluence Command Line Interface (CLI) will fit your use case more easily than save/restore.

[RPT Admin]

Thanks for fast response - this is a one-off, so I'm quite happy to do it manually on this occasion.

[David Stephensen]

This was helpful! Thanks!

[Ursula Hoult]

Hi, I'm also trying to do this. I've done the following:

1. Done an .xml export of the Space
2. unzipped and edited the entities and the exportDescriptor files to change the name of the Space key
3. re-zipped the file
4. imported the zip file

However I got the following error

"The following error(s) occurred:

The zip file did not contain an entry 'exportDescriptor.properties'. It contained: Confluence-space-export-072353-6.xml/attachments/,"  (this error went on for sometime listing attachments).

Is there a step I've missed or anything else I need to do to import a copy of the space?

Many thanks!