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Pull discussions, users, comments from old forum?

artisworkartiswork
edited September 2006 in Vanilla 1.0 Help
I'd like to pull just the users, comments and discussions from the previous vanilla forum which was (Vanilla (0.9.2.2). Is this simply a matter of getting the sql dumps of those tables from the old database? Is there anything I should know before I try this? The new forum is not live yet, so I can mess around before I get there. ANy thoughts?

Comments

  • ithcyithcy New
    newer vanillas have a setup script, which has an upgrade feature that should work with 0.9.2.2, if i'm not mistaken
  • MinisweeperMinisweeper New
    Any particular reason you want to skip categories or was that an error?
  • artisworkartiswork
    I've got new categories now. Don't really feel the need to even import discussions really.
  • ithcyithcy New
    edited September 2006
    you could make a backup of current db, run the upgrade script on it, install a new vanilla and then use the tables from the upgraded db instead of the new blank ones.
  • ithcyithcy New
    oh but if you've got new categories, you're going to run into problems with referential integrity.
  • artisworkartiswork
    How does the old user table compare to the new one?
  • ithcyithcy New
    it's pretty close. i don't have an 0.9.2.2 lying around anymore though.

    it's probably going to be easier for you just to run the upgrader and make your new categories all over.
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