Guide · checked against Atlassian's docs 2026-09-30

How to export a Confluence space

An HTML export gives you every page and attachment in a space as a zip file. It's a good backup, and it's the starting point for moving to any other wiki.

Confluence Cloud

You need to be a space admin. You'll get everything you can see; a site admin gets everything.

1. Next to the space name in the sidebar, choose More actions (•••), then Space settings.
2. In the General menu, choose Export space.
3. Choose HTML, then Next.
4. Pick everything, or only the pages you want, then choose Export space.
5. Download the zip when it's ready.

Source: Atlassian Support, Confluence Cloud.

Confluence Data Center and Server

You need the Export Space permission.

1. In the space, open Space tools at the bottom of the sidebar, then Content Tools.
2. Open the Export tab and choose HTML.
3. Choose Normal Export for the whole space, or Custom Export to pick pages.
4. Choose Export and download the zip when it's ready.

Source: Atlassian documentation, Confluence Data Center. Menu names can differ slightly between versions.

What's in the export

• Included: pages as HTML files and their attachments, each page's attachments in a folder named after the page's ID.
• Left out: blog posts, comments and unpublished changes. If you rely on blog posts, export them separately as PDF or Word.

Tips

• Export one space at a time. Large spaces can take a while.
• Keep the zip somewhere safe even after you move. It's a snapshot you can always go back to.
• Check the zip opens and that index.html shows your page tree before deleting anything.

Moving to Tablewide

Send us the zip and we'll rebuild the space as a BookStack wiki for free: page tree, attachments, images and internal links. You check the result before anyone switches.

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