not funny but important !!
everyone must die, sometimes earlier sometimes later, in case of an casual vacancy of me is the responsible root server owner: Bernd Dau from Germany (Koenigslutter)
he have access on the rootserver.
it's not needed to be a confluence skilled admin to bring back Admin permissions to another person or make an backup or get all data to install a new system.
few solutions to get Confluence Admin permissions or get receive all data to
A: hack the database entry (easy for most sys-admins)
- you need an user account or must know a user (lets say UserA) and you must know the password of UserA.
2. shutdown the confluence application (tomcat_directory/inst/bin/stop-confluence.sh)
3. copy in the database the password hash from the UserA to the user from me (username: LED-man)
4. start the confluence (tomcat_directory/inst/bin/start-confluence.sh)
B. contact Checkmate (from Germany) or Martin Jan Koehler (from Austria) - both have Confluence Admin permissions (in planning) (they don't have rootserver access)
they can export every Space to a zip file - then they need to install a new confluence and import the space exports, the exports contain all content & attachments)
(my System use 15 spaces (DSO, TTSH, SOLOMAN and more)
that's how I backup my system atm. manually.
There's also a fullback every night of the Db and FS on the root server,
Furthermore is always a old backup in /home/tcat/ from the autoupdate process which includes the /inst files and attachments.
in home are the attachments,
or just use the new backup from 02/2024: https://dsl-man.atlassian.net/wiki
Login Data: tbd for above users.
C. contact a IT-Consulting company which is Atlassian Partner - they know some other tricks
D. standard way for migration or server movement: export the database (sql) and export the (home and inst) directory - copy this on the new server.
but you also need the Confluence Admins to get Admin access in the webapplication.
good to know:
1.the global export function do NOT work, because the system is too big
2.some pages are hidden for users (ttsh, cloney )they are restricted by groups - only Confluence Admins can change it.
worst case: system is down - you can't read this page 