Hi Team, 

We want to backup the content in all our spaces.
Currently, there are around 331 spaces in our confluence. 
My use case is,
I want to export and download the content in all spaces to my local (Just we do maually) in an automated way.

https://getsupport.atlassian.com/browse/CHAT-56763

It would be very helpful for admins to have the ability to automatically backup confluence cloud 

@subramanian M: I have a WIP script to download a space as a workaround if you're willing to try: https://github.com/dernorberto/confluenceDumpWithPython
The caveat being that it's not updating all the links to the local files yet, only for the attachments/embeds/emoticons so far.

We would like to have regular confluence cloud backup 3 day's once. So an API endpoint is definitely useful

That is full site export functionality that is described in that link Gail. This request (over 7 years old now) is to enable the automation of space exports (by scheduling or via the API, I'll take either at this stage).

It is not even clear that a full site back up is of any use at all anyhow, if you use Jira + Confluence cloud, which we do (as opposed to Confluence server, where it might be). As I understand it, to get anything from a full site Confluence back up from Confluence cloud, you would need to implement an entire Confluence server site to allow for the restore, take what you need from the restored server site, and then reimport that into Confluence cloud. That's a hell of a lot of effort if you're looking for a few accidentally deleted pages (if those deleted pages don't still happen to live in the trash bucket for the space).

The ability to export spaces would mean you could easily restore an entire space up to Confluence cloud, if you needed to (quickly). It would also mean you could do useful things like, for example, check if a space had been updated since the last export, and skip exporting the space if it hasn't changed.

The automation functionality is useful sure; but not for the use case that this request is looking to fulfil.

[[ UPDATE: Actually, apologies! I've just realised that you can create the automation rule to run over a single site, the full site, or multiple selected sites. I'm not sure whether that means you get a full site content export - for a single or multiple sites - or the type of export which allows re-importation to confluence cloud. I'd have to test that in more detail, but it may be more useful than I originally thought.]]

I am using this process for both confluence and jira, and it works.   I just need to figure out how to make it download the backup file.   https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Jira-articles/Automate-online-site-backups-for-Jira-and-Confluence-without/ba-p/1271317 

We really need this function. We can not do DR due to Confluence Cloud site backup and restore not working. EAP backup/restore not function for 1 particular space.

This feature was first identified as missing back in 2016.... I would have thought enabling one's customers to make automated, off-site backups would have been higher up on the developer priority list. Especially given Atlassian's recent large-scale outages. 

We are a finance shop and are required by regulators to backup (WORM) some pages(and versions) in Confluence on a daily basis. We would like to automate this flow. So an API endpoint is definitely useful. 

We need a way to automate generation+download of both, the full backup for recovery and also the HTML-export!

Workaround for full backup with jira-confluence-cloud-backup/backup-confluence-api-token.ps1 at master · bluesman80/jira-confluence-cloud-backup · GitHub

But yet, we haven't fount a script for automating the HTML-export.

FYI to the other poor saps in the same situation looking for workarounds to this gap in Confluence's cloud system:

In lieu of having a dedicated backup option, I implemented a quick and dirty custom backup script in Python with an eye towards enabling disaster recovery in case there was an incident. If you run it on AWS will give you exports of every single page on confluence to S3. Each file will be written to

{space_id}.{page_id}.{version_id}

and it will continue to add any new versions that are marked "current" in the API.

See the README on github. Released it under the MIT license.

FYI the format of the export is controlled with the '?expand=childTypes.all,body.storage' parameter. I believe there's a body.display or something that will give HTML more conducive to rendering in a browser. You could then use some more python to export things to an S3 bucket or something just be aware of private content since this doesn't replicate any permissions settings.

It's not just about creating backups. In the unlikely scenario that Confluence Cloud is down, clients will need to be able to restore the backup so that they can view their pages. I suspect a read-only set of static web pages would be a reasonable temporary workaround for most clients until the issue is resolved. I see there is an export to html option, but that didn't work me when I tried to do it manually. https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/export-content-to-word-pdf-html-and-xml-139475.html

We were without Confluence for 9 days, working from memory was quite difficult, we wrote it down so we wouldn't have to remember! Automated space exports are a must have feature!

Considering that every department in my company relies on the use of run books for day to day operations, and considering that our Confluence has been down for 8 days and that we're now being told that we could continue to be working in the dark for another two weeks, an automated export and offsite backup is imperative for our business continuity moving forward.

We were hit by this latest incident. Our Confluence and Jira site were down for a week only had a site backup wich was 2Month old. It is crucial to hav an automated backup!

"When using Confluence AND Jira there is no option for a Confluence Site import. A space by space import is then the only option", and an automated space by space option is not available? This is troublesome!

Also, especially with the recent incident that seems to be still impacting some Confluence Customers (at least when I look at Atlassian Status) - having this sort of backup seems essential, especially for Confluence Cloud customers that have Jira.

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As with other users we put a lot of time and effort into our confluence space and would really appreciate an easy way to backup full spaces to a separate location.  Ideally in such a way that it could be re-imported easily in the event of a serious mistake/data loss.

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This is very important to us. There is no way to backup spaces automatically in a way that can be re-imported in case of accidental delete or other issue, and support informed us that they're unable to restore backups if a space is deleted on the server version. The only workaround is to manually export individual pages, which we are doing. But this would be far easier and provide for an easy restore method.

The existing path https://example.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/doexportspace.action?key=KEY just needs to be exposed through API and OAuth. An asynchronous method is just fine.

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+1 Agree this is highly desire feature 

+1 we would like to automate 'export page as pdf'

Yes please ! +100

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This is also of interest to us–we are currently limited by this missing feature.

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We want to automate document processing especially for document validation, export into other formats and backup.

Please rate this very missing feature higher.

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+1 This functionnality would be really appreciated in our team, as we really depend on the exports of pages to the HTML format, and we would like to automate this exports to same time. 

In addition, when I use the graphical UI to export pages to HTML, I face this bug when the page contains excerpt and multiexcerpt macros. 

+1 Would need this to automate documentation generation. 

Customer feedback:

This will be really useful if we get to a customer site where we have no connectivity and need to use the documentation without the use of internet locally from a datacenter floor.

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Possibility for automated scheduled backups using alternate channels is a must.

We have use cases where we need to create data dumps of our product source code and documentation for escrow. We have automated other parts of the escrow data file creation, but cannot automatically get our documentation that is in Confluence. What we need is a way to call the Confluence REST API from a script (bash or Ansible) to export an entire Confluence space. We need to deliver the escrow package quite often and don't want to do it manually when it would be trivial to automate.

Please add export space function to the Confluence REST API.

Yes, that would help here too.

I would also like a REST API to create a full backup of the server.