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Production Back-up Startegy
Asked by AKASH BHARDWAJ:

Hi Genius,

I am looking for some Confluence Production Back-up Startegy, My Production size is 50 GB and above, I cannnot go for Complete Backup Starategy as it's going to hamper Server Performance.

I have gone through many Tutorials but still some concrete answer i am still looking at.

[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF35/Production+Backup+Strategy)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/CONF35/Production+Backup+Strategy>

[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Production+Backup+Strategy)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Production+Backup+Strategy>


Answers:
author: MJ
body: The process as described in [](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Production+Backup+Strategy)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Production+Backup+Strategy>would be most suitable based on the size of your instance. XML backups of instances of this size are not likely to function properly when re-importing, and as you have indicated might already cause (performance) issues in the creation process

***Establishing a production system backup solution***   
*Atlassian recommends establishing an alternative database backup strategy:*   
*Create a backup or dump of your database using tools provided by your database*   
*(warning) To avoid any data inconsistency and corruption, it is recommended to shut down Confluence before creating a database backup or dump.*   
*Create a file system backup of your Confluence home directory*

The section above is the process I would recommend you to follow. In case you are hosting your instance AND database on a virtual machine, cloning the VM as a whole might be a solution as well.


Tags: backup
(confluence) How-to: Show on a page all changes of last X days in spaces x, y and z?
Asked by Sven:

Hello,

similar to the "Changes in the last 24 hours mail" we need to be able to create a page in confluence which

- shows in all spaces allowed for the current user all changes of last X days (or optional since last login) but limited to a list of (important) spaces (the 24-hours-mail shows all spaces with at least read-access)

I'm sure in 4.x this should be possible with some "old-style-third-party-macros" like {space-reporter} and so on. But perhaps now in 5.3+ there is an easier way to get this?

Any hints are appreciated (including the use of add-ons)

Thanks,

Sven


Answers:
author: Manuela Raschke
body: Hi Sven, the only solution I can give - is the "old-Style....".

With the Reporting Plugin (<https://docs.servicerocket.com/display/REPORT/Reporting+Plugin>) you could build a table with your requests. You can set the date limit. You could show either all the favourite spaces of the user or you name the spaces to show in the report.

Greetings Manuela


author: Mattia _bitvoodoo ag_
body: Hello [@Sven](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/853593)

I have only just discovered your question.  
If you are interested in other solutions and are also open to using a third-party app, we recently released a new version of our [Viewtracker](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/28637/viewtracker-analytics-for-confluence?hosting=datacenter&tab=overview) app.

With the new [Analytics Report](https://docs.bitvoodoo.app/viewtracker-analytics-for-confluence-data-center/analytics-report) macro, you can present to your audience lists of newly published, most viewed, recently modified, most liked, and most commented content, along with other [interesting information](https://docs.bitvoodoo.app/viewtracker-analytics-for-confluence-data-center/metrics-and-lists-availabe-in-the-analytics-report) for the desired time period within the Spaces on Confluence pages.

Kind regards,

Mattia


author: Illa shiza
body: Hi,

To create a page that shows all changes in the last X days for specific spaces, use the "Recently Updated" macro:

1. Edit the page.  
2. Insert the "Recently Updated" macro.  
3. Configure it to include spaces \`x, y, z\` and set the desired time frame.  
4. Save the page.

For more features, consider add-ons like "Content Report Table" or "Enhanced Search".

Hope this helps!

---


author: Davin Studer
body: Have you taken a look at the search results macro? If has a parameter for "Last Modified". It will also only show you results that you have access to. If you want to then even further limit which spaces are represented you could use a user macro to loop through the filetered list of spaces and create a search results macro for each of those spaces using the Restrict to this Space Key parameter of the search results macro.

comments: author: Davin Studer
body: Does this work for you?
Children display macro with labels?
Asked by Robert Mark Bram:

Can I have Children display macro with labels?

I have used the Page Properties Report macro and the Content By Label macro, but both require me to set a lable. Instead, I want a list of all pages in my space along with their label(s).


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: Try using the search results macro with the below attributes. It will show you all of the pages in your space along with the labels.

![](../../upfiles/PagesAndLabels.PNG)

comments: author: Robert Mark Bram
body: Excellent.. this will do. I would have liked to remove the summary too, but it is good enough for my purpose.
Link to Site Spaces in Space Directory
Asked by one twothree:

How would I build a URL which directs me to the 'Site Spaces' tab (or Archived Spaces, Favourite Spaces, ect) in the Space Directory?

Currently, if I select a category and then navigate back to ../spacedirectory/view.action I am still viewing that category. I'm looking for a direct link to the Site Spaces tab.

Thanks


Answers:
author: Olivier Crozier
body: Use this alternative for the Favourite Spaces:

\<confluence-url\>/users/viewmyfavourites.action

See <https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/confluence-url-list-317949394.html>


author: sklebingat
body: I'm also interested in an answer to that question. Can somebody give any advice?

Thanks


Tags: link

url
How do I remove the sidebar when using Global Look and Feel
Asked by Chris Kent:

I want to remove the sidebar from a space so that the entire screen real estate is used for content, and in removing the sidebar I will need to ad the "Browse" menu into the main menu to get to the Space Admin (similar to the Documentation Theme).


Answers:
author: Chris Kent
body: Resolved, using the Global Look and Feel Theme, where Style sheets can be edited...

In the Space Admin-\>Layout-\>Main Layout code, find the following statements

```
#elseif ($useNewSpaceIA &amp;&amp; $sitemeshPage.getProperty("page.ia-sidebar"))    	&lt;div class="ia-splitter"&gt;    		&lt;div class="ia-splitter-left"&gt;    			&lt;div class="ia-fixed-sidebar"&gt;    				$!sitemeshPage.getProperty("page.ia-sidebar")    			&lt;/div&gt;    		&lt;/div&gt;    #end
```

and remove the 6 lines between the #elseif .. #end lines (leaving these)

and walla, the sidebar is no longer rendered.

The to get to the Space Admin for this space, just go

Confluence Admin-\>Space Permissions-\>Manage Permissions for the space and you are now in the spaces admin pages....


author: William Zanchet [Atlassian]
body: Hi Chris,

1. Each user can collapse the sidebar individually, and their preference will be remembered (via a cookie). If you're using Confluence 5 series, you'll see the option in the top right, the option to collapse.  
2. Use the Documentation Theme instead, and collapse the page tree individually
3. Look into a third-party plugin eg [Adaptavist's Builder Theme](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.adaptavist.confluence.themes.sitebuilder), which will allow you to customise your own theme layout. NB: Themes customised with Builder Theme are not supported by Atlassian.

I hope this helps.  
Cheers,  
WZ

comments: author: Chris Kent
body: William,

I should have added a few more requirements.

1. This is needed for a single space that contains 1 page, our Confluence site Home page.

2. I need all the realestate for links and our customised navigation, so I don't even want the option for users to show the sidebar

3. I don't want to pay for this.

Cheers

Chris
Confluence Source Editor Not Available on New Page?
Asked by Gianna Migliorisi:

Is the expected behavior of the [Confluence Source Editor](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.editor.confluence-source-editor) to not display by default when you create a new page? This only works when there's content already available?


Answers:
author: HosseinA
body: Hi,

Please visit the link below for an answer to your question:

[](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.editor.confluence-source-editor#review-id-1225085)<https://marketplace.atlassian.com/plugins/com.atlassian.confluence.plugins.editor.confluence-source-editor#review-id-1225085>

To make this work, you can simply "Save" the new page, and then press "Edit". Then you will be able to use Source Editor.


Tags: source

source-editor
Confluence - Creating Blogs or Pages by Email
Asked by Viet Tran:

Hello,

Our team is looking for a way to store and archive article(s) we find online in our Confluence space. It would basically go: send an email to @address --\> Creates a blog in a specified space.

<br />

It would be great if we can send the article to an email address and have that create a blog or something similar inside Confluence. I've already asked Atlassian support this question and it seems like there isn't a feature to support this at the moment.

I am open to suggestions as to how others have accomplished something similar in Confluence OnDemand.

Thanks,

Viet


Answers:
author: Davin Studer
body: You would probably have to write something, but the SOAP api is capable ot remotely creating pages. Another option would be to tie someting into Bob Swift's Confluence Command Line Interface to create the pages. If you can create/use something to get it from email to a file format then the Confluence CLI could upload the content to Confluence.

comments: author: Viet Tran
body: Thanks Davin. The users that will be using this probably wouldn't be comfortable using Confluence CLI or the SOAP API. I will look into this further tho.


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
Access denied to Confluence Trial
Asked by Alex Whitney:

I added a Confluence on-demand trial to my existing account, which includes Jira and Jira Agile. I am able to view Confluence from my On Demand Account, but not any other On Demand user accounts.

I created a test user, placed it in every group I belong to on my On Demand account, which still didn't resolve the problem. As the test user, I opened up the Global User Management page, where I encountered an error in the license usage section:

Jira: 7 Remaining  
Confluence: Error communicating with Confluence: Unknown Content-Type: text/html

We would like to be able to grant existing JIRA users access to the Confluence application so that we can evaluate its fit within our business process. Is this possible with the trial?

Thanks.


Answers:
author: Alex Whitney
body: Workaround did not fix my problem. Submitted a support ticket. The global users feature was rolled back for my on-demand instance.


author: Rebecca Sheranian
body: Same issue here so maybe bug is not fixed. Have Jira on Demand, have been granted admin to Confluence but in users says (Confluence (Error communicating with Confluence: Unknown Content-Type: text/html), if try to access Confluence either get no page load or screen that says I do not have access.


author: Mauro Badii
body: Hi Alex,

Strange thing that you are coming across the problem on bug: [](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/UNIFIED-9)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/UNIFIED-9>that has already been deployed.

Please try the workaround to solve the situation.

Feel free to create an issue at support at [support.atlassian.com](http://support.atlassian.com)if you still find trouble since we'll be able to take a closer look at your instance.

Cheers,  
Mauro


Tags: cloud

confluence-cloud
admin password
Asked by Petra Koutska:

Hello,

I created four personal Confluence logins (trial version) for me and my colleagues. The paper where I noted the passwords accidetaly vanished from my desk. Unfortunately, the only user name+password that I remember is not the admin's one (mine). I am the admin and I cannot log in as an admin (only as one of the regular users), because I do not remember the password. It is a bit weird becuase I still CAN log in as an Atlassian user ([petschwarz@seznam.cz](mailto:petschwarz@seznam.cz)), but my Confluence account doesn t work with those details. I find it confusing and do not get why there is no possibility to send the new password to my email (my email address is part of the profile which still exists so it wouldn t be that complicated. However, after each failed login, Confluence says that it is not possible to restore the password due to the missing email).

Please help me to restore my administrator's access.

Best regards,

Petra Koutska


Answers:
author: William Zanchet [Atlassian]
body: Petra,  

You might want have a look in the following documentation on how to restore admin's password:  
[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Restoring+Passwords+To+Recover+Admin+User+Rights)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Restoring+Passwords+To+Recover+Admin+User+Rights>  

Make sure you have access to the database and follow the steps given.  
Cheers,  
WZ  

comments: author: Petra Koutska
body: Sorry, I can access confluence as a regular user, I only want to change the nature of the one accessible account (and make it admin account), or just reset the password of the admin s account. I hoped it would mean only sending the new password to my email address. For the steps given above I would need to call our IT specialist.

[](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Restoring+Passwords+To+Recover+Admin+User+Rights)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DOC/Restoring+Passwords+To+Recover+Admin+User+Rights>- this doesnt help me either. The steps given above doesn't even seem to apply to my situation. I have already shut it down several times, I have already opened it with appropriate tool and I normally logged in as one of the users. But this doesnt change anything, because not being an admin means that I cannot change the passwords of other three users (incl. admin) which I had lost previously.

I tried to download Confluence again, but it was only upgrading and all the accounts stayed the same -inaccessible. I think, in the end, the easiest thing will me to uninstall it completely and install anew. Than, hopefully, the database would be without account (hopefully it would not "remember" the server ID and attach the accounts again)

Thank you for yor understanding and help.

Petra


author: Steve Gerstner [bridgingIT]
body: * shut down confluence (VERY IMPORTANT)
* Open your database with a apropriate tool
* copy the password hash you know to your user
* restart confluence


Tags: confluence-administration
VPS Specs for dragon install
Asked by John Williams:

If I do a full dragon install on this VPS, will it be ok, assuming they don't excessively oversell? This is for 1-5 people use.

VPSDime - Linux VPS

4 vCPU (shared)

6 GB Memory (possibly shared)

30 GB Storage

VPS will be restarted automatically if the load is 4 or more for one hour, or 2 or more for 2 hours.

Does Linux install go more smoothly than Mac/Windows? I gave up on Mac, and will probably give up on Windows.

Thanks!


Answers:
author: rrudnicki
body: Hi John,

When you mean dragon, are you mean Confluence, JIRA, Stash, Bamboo, and Fisheye on the same server? If so, I believe you will have issues related to performance, even to 5 users. Sometimes, is not only the number of users you need to think, but also which plugins are you planning to install. This kind of resource usually requires more hardware.

In My opinion, for a small environment, you can setup 1.GB of memory for each application and more 1GB for the operation system, then you will need 2GB of memory for each application. Of course you could try less, but you probably will face performance issues, specially VPS has shared resources. For storage, I recommend you to have 10GB for the Operation System (at least), but I believe 30GB after sometime might not be enough.

However, if you are planning to use this VPS only for testing and learning process, I believe you can try but if you are planning to use this for a production environment, would be better you think in a dedicated server with more resources.

Lastly, Linux will have a better performance since you can install this with no interface graphic (ok, windows core you can do this as well, but I think Windows requires more hardware to run). About MAC, some applications are not supported on MAC OS, like Confluence.

I hope this helps. If do you have other questions, just ask :smile:.

All the best,

Renato Rudnicki


Tags: confluence-administration

dragonslayer

jira

linux
Track key metrics from Confluence Questions plugin
Asked by Jorge:

Hi, i'm interested in finding getting some nice SQL queries to get statistics about the usage of Confluence Questions. It could be things like:

* # of questions asked
* # of answers given, accepted
* # of upvotes
* # of questions per topic

I know that some of these things are easy to get by clicking around, but i'm actually looking for a way to make an easy report that I can track over time.

The name of the table and fields relevant for this are very much appreciated.


Answers:
author: Jorge
body: In the meantime, this page has a txt file with some good queries that can be used.

It uses the SQL macro, but the queries can be used from any database client: [](https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DISC/Site+Statistics)<https://confluence.atlassian.com/display/DISC/Site+Statistics>


author: marunmohan
body: Is it possible to take the below metrics from database?

* # of answers accepted
* # of upvotes


author: Jorge
body: Excellent! Thanks.


author: BillA
body: FYI - we've got an open ticket for implementing this feature at <https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CQ-518>


author: Steve Gerstner [bridgingIT]
body: I would recommend a way via the api and mind the sql.

But, at least, a look here would suggest, that this will not be that easy... [](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CQ-376)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CQ-376>

Try the Active Objects Browser from the developer tools to find out if and what information is stored in an active obects table.

Take a look on the content table, I would guess questions are pages and answers are comments. topics are maybe labels... If nothing is found in active objects, try to find something in the page properties.

And to say it once more, that is just a theoretical debatte where I would take a look to find the informations ;)

Hope somebody is deeper in this then me....


Tags: confluence-administration

questions-for-confluence
Using a alias instead of the long JIRA URL with hostname and port.
Asked by Kshama Shanbhag:

I am a JIRA user. In our organization the URL to access our Confluence page is set up as http://\<servername\>:8090/display/Dept/Dept+home. I would like to know if i could use a short alias to access this same page and how I can make this happen.

for eg : Instead of typing the long URL above, can I type [](http://Dept)<http://Dept>and be taken to the same page? Pls Help


Answers:
author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: First point - which is it? Jira or Confluence?

Actually, that doesn't matter too much, the same principle applies to both. You need to decide on the url you want to use for each of them and stick with it. (You can create many "aliases", so that many addresses land on the one application, but the application only really uses one of them. People using an alias will be effectively pushed to the url the application runs on. The only real use of aliases is when you've moved a system and you want to catch users using the old url and push them on to the new one)

Once you've decided on a url, you need to do two things

1. Tell the application what it is (admin -\> general config -\> base url)

2. Set up your network to understand it - this is mostly a bit of DNS work.

comments: author: Kshama Shanbhag
body: Thanks Nic for your answer.

I think I should provide you with some details. Even though we want to be able to access the Confluence page with the short URL , we do not want to change the Base URL. Most people in the organisation use this long URL and would continue to use it.

The need is only for some people to be able to type in the alias and be directed to the long one . We need to be able to get to http://\<servername\>:8090/display/Dept/Dept+home by typing [](http://dept/)<http://dept>and keep the long one too so others who are used to typing it that way can get to it.


author: Nic Brough -Adaptavist-
body: That doesn't really change my answer.

See my comment in braces about "aliases". It doesn't matter how many redirects or aliases you have, you can only have one base url and that's what the application will use.

People might arrive via a redirect or mapping or whatever, but once they're in, most, if not all, links they encounter for navigating inside the application will be based on the base url so the short url will be useless.

There's no harm in having these aliases or redirects, but you must decide on a single "authoritative" base url that always works. Even if you do horribly clever things with apache rewrites, that single base url is going to get used.


author: Kshama Shanbhag
body: would appreciate if any body could help
Can I set the Expand Macro to be open by default?
Asked by Jason Muzzarelli:

I've seen a number of requests for this, but I'm throwing my hat into the ring as well....we need the ability to have the expand macro expanded by default, then users can collapse if they choose to. I see there have been some work-arounds posted where it provides a collapse all / expand all, but what I need is specifically for the content to be all visible when the page loads, and collapsed upon the user doing so. Any help here?


Answers:
author: HosseinA
body: Hi,

We have an improvement request on this. For more information:

[](https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-27077)<https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-27077>

I recommend that you watch the ticket and vote for it as well.

Cheers.


Tags: confluence-administration