How to back up your videos?

Background

In order to facilitate the storage, backup and recovery of many and large video files, Videos for Confluence stores the videos on a separate storage medium. This separate storage also needs to be backed up separately (as it’s not included in any standard Confluence backup mechanisms).

The video storage holds the video files themselves as well as the generated files for the videos (thumbnail, preview, meta information). Other information such as attributes are stored in the Confluence database.

The configured video storage location is indicated in the system administration, under the menu item Storage Configuration, cf. Setting up the configuration .

Each video entity belongs to exactly one space which is reflected by the structure on the file system:

<space key>
-- <video id>
---- <video file>.<video format>
---- <image preview>.png
---- <animated preview>.gif

Answer

To back up your videos the entire file system which is configured for Videos for Confluence should be saved and stored regularly.

For local storage, your own backup mechanisms which you also use for the Confluence shared home directory may apply.

For an AWS S3 bucket, various backup mechanisms exist, such as versioning, copying all bucket data to another bucket regularly, e.g. via replication, or using Amazon S3 Glacier for backup. Additional AWS cost will apply for these options.