How to quickly restore Confluence spaces and groups with GitProtect.
Overview of the Confluence recovery process, including available restoration destinations and recovery options.
Recover Confluence spaces and groups from a backup copy, together with their resources and metadata.
Overview of the Confluence recovery process, including available restoration destinations and recovery options.
GitProtect provides a structured Confluence recovery process for protected resources, enabling restoration of content such as pages, spaces, attachments, and associated metadata to a selected recovery point. The recovery workflow supports granular restore scenarios, ensuring data consistency and minimizing downtime during incident recovery operations.
With granular recovery, GitProtect enables restoring selected Confluence content without a full environment rollback. You can target specific spaces or groups that were deleted or modified, and selectively restore only the content you need. This speeds up recovery, reduces operational disruption, and prevents overwriting healthy data.
Granular recovery is ideal when only a small portion of information needs to be restored. It’s especially useful when:
GitProtect provides two Confluence restore types:
Restore spaces — allows you to restore one or more spaces from a selected backup copy.
Restore groups — allows you to restore selected or all groups from a backup copy.
GitProtect allows you to restore Confluence backups in two ways:
To the original Confluence organization — restoring backups directly to the original organization.
To a new Confluence organization — restoring backups to a different Confluence organization*.
*The organization must already be integrated with GitProtect; adding a new organization during the recovery process is not supported.
Recover Confluence spaces and groups from a backup copy, together with their resources and metadata.
Granular recovery for Confluence lets you restore selected spaces and related access settings without bringing back the entire instance, helping you recover only the data and permissions that matter while leaving the rest of the site unchanged.
The below steps demonstrate how to quickly restore Confluence spaces using GitProtect Management Service.
Open the Confluence tab (DevOps > Confluence), then click the Restore button next to the organization whose backup you want to restore.
You can also use the Explore button to restore your data.
Select the backup plan from which you want to restore data. Click the drop-down under Backup plans section and choose one of the plans from the list.
Choose the backup version from all the backups that have already been performed — select the desired date and click the Restore button.
Select the destination for the recovery and click Next.
In the next aside, select the Restore Spaces option and click Next. Then, select spaces to restore and click Proceed.
Select the available data to restore and click Save to proceed.
In the Items to restore section at the top, you can change which of the previously chosen data you want to restore, if needed.
In the Restore to section, you can change the previously selected recovery destination if needed.
In Restore settings, you can add a custom suffix to restored space names and keys, and change the backup agent (default worker) that performs the restoration.
After defining all parameters, click the Restore button to begin the recovery process. When the process is complete, new space(s) will be created in the selected Confluence instance. You can monitor the restoration process in the Tasks tab.
The below steps demonstrate how to quickly restore Confluence groups using GitProtect Management Service.
Get into the restore view using the following method:
Open the Confluence tab (DevOps > Confluence), then click the Restore button next to the organization whose backup you want to restore.
Select the backup plan from which you want to restore data. Click the drop-down under
Choose the backup version from all the backups that have already been performed — select the desired date and click the Restore button.
Select the destination for the recovery and click Next.
In the next aside, select the Restore Groups option and click Next. Then, select users to restore and click Proceed.
In the Items to restore section at the top, you can change which of the previously chosen groups and users you want to restore, if needed.
In the Restore to section, you can change the previously selected recovery destination if needed.
In Restore settings, you can choose whether to restore groups together with their users or restore only the groups. You can also add custom names to restored groups and change the backup agent (default worker) that performs the restoration.
After defining all parameters, click the Restore button to begin the recovery process. When the process is complete, new group(s) will be created in the selected Confluence instance. You can monitor the restoration process in the Tasks tab.
GitProtect allows you to select specific resources and metadata to restore — each element can be included or excluded by toggling the switch next to it.
Restoring never overwrites existing spaces in the organization — if you do not set a custom suffix for restored spaces and space keys, they retain their original names with automatically generated suffixes.
Restoring never overwrites existing groups in the organization — if you do not set a custom name for restored groups, they retain their original names with automatically generated suffixes.
