Backups use original home in confluence-init.properties after being changed

Summary

When changing the value for confluence.home in confuence-init.properties after original installation, the backups still use the original value.

Environment

• Confluence 6.4.0

Steps to Reproduce

1. Install Confluence 6.4.0 (either installer or manually)
2. Set Confluence up and compete configuration
   • At this point manual and nightly backups will be in <confluence-home>/backups
3. Shutdown Confluence
4. Edit <confluence-install>/WEB-INF/classes/confluence-init.properties and change confluence.home to a new location
5. Move all the data from the original home directory to the new one
6. Create the directory <original-confluence-home>/backups
7. Restart Confluence
8. Go to > General Configuration > Backup Administration and confirm that the backup path is the new destination
9. Go to > General Configuration > Backup & Restore
10. Check Archive to backups folder and click Back up

Note now that we have the message

And checking the directory we can see the file is in the original location still.

Expected Results

The backup goes to the new home backups folder.

Actual Results

The backup is dropped in the original backups folder.

Notes

Using the XML export is not recommended as a production backup strategy

• Production Backup Strategy

The data is not changed in the bandana table

select * from bandana where bandanakey ='atlassian.confluence.settings';

and look for <backupPath>...</backupPath>

Workaround

Manually set the backup path via the steps in

• Configuring Backups - Enabling Backup Path Configuration

This is an unsuported change

1. Shutdown Confluence
2. Update the BANDANA table with a replace statement, for example

   update bandana set bandanavalue = replace(bandanavalue, '<backupPath>OLD BACKUP PATH</backupPath>', '<backupPath>NEW BACKUP PATH</backupPath>');
   

   Where

• OLD_BACKUP_PATH is something like /var/atlassian/application-data/confluence/backups
• NEW_BACKUP_PATH is something like /mnt/confluence/backups

Additional Note

• Moving from Server to Data Center, the backup path is not changed to "<shared-home>/backups" instead follows the old location "<local-home>/backups"