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Bug
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Resolution: Won't Fix
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Low
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None
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2.5.2, 2.8.1, 3.0.1
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None
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Standalone
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8
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A few customers have reported that when Confluence size has grown quite large (eg. entities.xml file is over 200MB), neither daily backup nor manual XML backup produced contain the exportdescriptor.properties file.
Despite this, no error message is logged in the log file.
The backup does not seem to be corrupted, as adding a copy of exportdescriptor.properties file of the same version into the zip folder appears to resolve the problem.
This problem can be replicated in house with large XML backup.
[CONFSERVER-12206] Missing exportdescriptor.properties on XML backup
A clarification on the workaround:
adding a copy of exportdescriptor.properties file of the same version into the zip folder appears to resolve the problem
To do this:
- Create an XML backup, either for a space or from an out-of-the-box instance of Confluence. Make sure it's the correct version. Alternatively, create this file manually. See the templates below. You can find the build number in <confluence-home>/confluence.cfg.xml.
- Unzip the backup and find the exportDescriptor.properties file, or use the one you created in step 1.
- Unzip your XML backup. Add the exportDescriptor.properties file and re-zip. Make sure to rezip the contents of the folder, not the enclosing folder.
This should then import. A sample exportDescriptor.properties file is attached for version 3.0.1.
Sample export descriptors:
#Mon Aug 24 12:17:49 PDT 2009
exportType=space
buildNumber=1634
backupAttachments=true
#Mon Aug 24 12:19:55 PDT 2009
exportType=all
buildNumber=1634
backupAttachments=false
Resolving through standard process. Issue unmodified for 3 years, marked minor and few votes.