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HOW TO DISABLE UPGRADE RECOVERY FILE GENERATION IN CONFLUENCE
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Platform Notice: Server and Data Center Only. This article only applies to
Atlassian products on the server and data center platforms.
PURPOSE
By default, Confluence creates an upgrade recovery file before and after an
upgrade. This file can be used to roll back if your upgrade fails. However,
generating this file can take long time on sites that are medium sized or
larger, and can be safely turned off if you have a robust process to back up
your database and verify the backup before performing an upgrade.
It's important to note that if you disable the upgrade recovery file, and your
upgrade fails, you will need to rely solely on your database and file system
backups to recover from the problem.
SOLUTION
To disable the upgrade recovery file:
1. Stop Confluence.
2. Set the -Dconfluence.upgrade.recovery.file.enabled system property to false.
(i.e. -Dconfluence.upgrade.recovery.file.enabled=false)
The way you do this will depend on how you run Confluence. See Configuring
System Properties to find out how to set system properties in your
environment.
3. Restart Confluence.
If you're running Confluence in a cluster, you can make this change to each node
in turn, you do not need to stop all nodes at once.
Remember that this property must be set before you begin the upgrade. If you
upgrade Confluence manually, that means updating this property in the setenv.sh
or setenv.bat file in the install directory of the version you are upgrading
to, not just your current install directory.
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RELATED CONTENT
* Warning: Recovery file generation failed
* Too many open files error
* Confluence fails to start with error message "can't initalise container -
corrupt project.cfg.xml"
* Confluence will not start up because the build number in the Home Directory
doesn't match the build number in the Database, after upgrade
* Unable to add a comment to an attachment with 'required security token was
not present' error
* Browser Timeout When Attempting to Restore XML Backup Via Upload Method
* de.communardo.confluence.plugins.apc addon prevents Confluence 7 from
starting
* Confluence fails to start up after replacing or editing web.xml file
* Confluence does not start due to Spring Application context has not been set
* Unable to start Confluence or enable the Usage Stats plugin due to 'Cannot
forcefully unlock a NativeFSLock' error
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