Hi. I currently have a Vbulletin forum that over the years has gotten pretty messed up, so I made another vBulletin forum. I installed impex. Is Impex the best way to transfer my threads/posts/users from my old vbulletin forum to my new one? or is there a faster/better way? also, how long does impex take to transfer everything? thanks in advance!
impex i think is to transfer from some other forum software to vbulletin but if u want to transfer vbulletin to vbulletin u have to upgrade it
You could just export the database and import it into the new forum. However for that to work you couldn't have any mods installed and must be using the same version of Vbulletin on each forum.
Impex is used to merge databases with existing databses as well. It doesn't take long and everything is very simple.
I can do it in 4-5 minute , just download your "/forum" folder , Upload to new server, And Change the config.php with new server SQL DB's , and Install the Backup of forum on it !! You will get the forum working , without any downtime
That would work, assuming he wants to keep the old server running just to keep the database. Its not hard just to take a database dump, but make sure you keep all of the binary data, this sort of data can often be lost when taking db dumps mysqldump, available from sun/mysql is fairly easy to use: shell> mysqldump [options] db_name [tbl_name ...] shell> mysqldump [options] --databases db_name ... shell> mysqldump [options] --all-databases