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You’re migrating Confluence department by department. Data Center and Cloud need to stay in sync between every cutover.
Most enterprise Confluence migrations don’t happen overnight. They happen in phases — one department at a time, over months. That’s the right approach. But it creates a problem Atlassian’s Confluence Cloud Migration Assistant (CCMA) wasn’t built to solve: the longer the transition takes, the further your Data Center and Cloud environments drift apart.
By the time you’re ready to cut over the next department, the content in Cloud no longer reflects what’s in Data Center. Someone has to find the gaps, reconcile the differences, and manually bring everything back into alignment. At enterprise scale, that’s not a task — it’s a project.
Space Sync for Confluence eliminates that rework.
What this looks like in practice
You’ve started your Confluence migration. Engineering is already on Cloud. Legal, Finance, and Operations are still on Data Center — they’re next in the queue, but the cutover is three months away.
In the meantime, both environments are live. Pages are being updated on Data Center that Cloud teams need to reference. Decisions made in Cloud spaces aren’t visible to Data Center users. Your migration team is spending time manually exporting, re-importing, and spot-checking content instead of moving the project forward.
Confluence Cloud Migration Assistant (CCMA) handled your initial content transfer. But CCMA is a point-in-time tool — it moved a snapshot. Everything that’s changed since then is on you.
What breaks without continuous sync
- Teams on Data Center update process docs, policies, or project pages that Cloud users can’t see — or see an outdated version of
- Teams on Cloud produce content that Data Center users miss entirely until the next manual export
- Your migration checkpoints require reconciling content differences before each department cutover — every time
- Admins spend hours on each phase validating content parity, delaying the overall migration timeline
- Stakeholders lose confidence in whether they’re reading the current version
The longer the migration takes, the worse the drift gets. A six-month phased rollout across six departments means six rounds of this.
How Space Sync for Confluence fixes this
Space Sync for Confluence runs continuous, bidirectional sync between your Confluence Data Center and Cloud instances throughout the migration — not just at the start.
As content changes in either environment, Space Sync for Confluence keeps both sides aligned. Your Data Center teams see what Cloud teams are working on. Your Cloud teams have access to the same policies, documentation, and project pages that Data Center users are updating. No manual exports. No reconciliation projects before each cutover.
Before each department cutover, run a bulk sync checkpoint to bring both environments into full parity. Then cut over with confidence — knowing the content your newly migrated team will find in Cloud is exactly what they left behind in Data Center.
After migration, Space Sync for Confluence continues to run until your Data Center instance is fully decommissioned, protecting any departments that are still mid-transition.
Key capabilities for this scenario:
- Bidirectional content sync (Cloud ↔ Data Center), continuous or on-demand
- Bulk sync for pre-cutover alignment checkpoints
- Sync scope controls — define exactly which spaces sync, and which don’t
- Conflict detection to flag discrepancies before they cause problems
- Audit logs showing every sync event: when, what, and between which spaces
What changes for your team
Migration checkpoints become a configuration step, not a content reconciliation project. Department cutovers happen on schedule instead of slipping because content isn’t ready. Your Data Center and Cloud teams stop operating from different versions of the same documentation.
The teams you’ve already migrated to Cloud stay current with what’s happening on Data Center. The teams still on Data Center can reference Cloud content without switching environments. Everyone works from a single source of truth — even while you’re running two platforms.
Built for the people running the migration
Cloud Migration Lead / Transformation PM — You need content parity across environments throughout every phase. Space Sync for Confluence gives you a repeatable sync mechanism that complements CCMA and reduces the manual work between phases.
IT Manager / Atlassian Platform Owner — You’re responsible for continuity across both environments during the transition. Space Sync for Confluence keeps hybrid operations stable, with audit logs to demonstrate control at every stage.
Confluence Administrator — You’re the one who has to reconcile content before each cutover. Space Sync for Confluence automates the sync that’s currently eating your time.
“Atlassian’s Confluence Cloud Migration Assistant handles the one-time transfer. Space Sync for Confluence handles everything in between.”
Ricksoft, Inc., is ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certified. Space Sync for Confluence works alongside Atlassian’s native migration tooling — not as a replacement for Confluence Cloud Migration Assistant (CCMA), but as the layer CCMA doesn’t provide.