Restore confluence
Asked by Andrey Basharov:

Hello. We had a server with jira and confluence. This server was destroyed, but we have their db backup. How can we recover it?

Our product version was most likely old - this is problem?

How can I find out the version of the product in the database?

Can you provide an old distribution for installation?


Answers:
author: sara
body: I suggest you try he following.

1.Install confluence fresh instance same version.

2.Stop confluence.

3.Load DB dump.

4.Copy attachments folder to home.

5.Clear cases and perform content reindexing.

But still you have to check useravaters and few other features are working.


author: Grigory Salnikov
body: Hi, [@Andrey Basharov](/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/461279) !

Please, take a look [at the following article](https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf59/restoring-a-site-792499608.html) and see whether it applies to your situation.

And here's the similar question on finding out the Confluence version from your database:

[Does anyone know if the version of Confluence is stored in the Confluence database?](https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/Does-anyone-know-if-the-version-of-Confluence-is-stored-in-the/qaq-p/764871)

Please, try to go through the steps described there. Should you have any questions or difficulties, get back to us.

comments: author: Andrey Basharov
body: Thanks, but I think I have a different situation. I only have a mssql database backup. It is in format .bak. Can i recover Jira and Confluence from such a backup?


author: Grigory Salnikov
body: Oh, I see.

I've looked through the following article:

[Restoring Data from other Backups](https://confluence.atlassian.com/conf59/restoring-data-from-other-backups-792499612.html)

and I don't see how this may be possible, because you're required to have not only the backup of your database, but of your home directory as well.

It seems that there's no way to recover (according to the related documentation). I don't know, there may be some other ways that I'm unaware of. Maybe someone from the Community can add something here or correct me if I'm wrong.


author: Andrey Basharov
body: I have attachment file from from Confluence. Is this not enough?


author: Grigory Salnikov
body: As attachments are only a part of the overall application's structure I have grave doubts it would work.

Again, I might be wrong here.


author: Andrey Basharov
body: Do you think we can somehow save at least an article?

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author: Grigory Salnikov
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author: Andrey Basharov
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author: Grigory Salnikov
body: I'm sorry I'll switch back to English :)

These are both products' timelines:

[Confluence Release Summary](https://confluence.atlassian.com/doc/confluence-release-summary-160006346.html)

[Jira Software Version History](https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1213607/jira-software/version-history)

It looks like you versions colud be:

Confluence 6.0 - November 2016

Jira Server 7.4.6 2018-01-16

Unless you've updated them after.


Tags: confluence-server

jira

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