I have a friend who has a forum he put up probably over 5 years ago, vbulletin running on a windows server and his host just went out of biz and he wants to move it to another host and has the backups. Can you move that to a linux host or too much to update for that? Instead of a sql file for the db there is a db back with a lot of .frm files so no clue what to do with these? Any tips appreciated on if I need to move to another windows server or would it be easy to get someone that could convert this to run on linux hosing so I could update to the latest version. thanks! -George
Vbulletin will run on a linux server as long as it has the standard PHP and MySQL which you will need. You could probably find a shared host who would offer to restore the backup at little to no cost. Otherwise you could try a developer in the buy/sell section of the forums.
Good idea, I should have checked with my host. On my other php mysql sites that I move I usually copy all the files and export/import the db in phpmy admin so I have databse.sql file backup of the db. But for this site, the admin gave the db backup consisting of a lot files like thread.frm, user.frm, userlist.frm and a lot of these taggregate_temp_1280681760. Are those used to import back into a new mysql db? Guess I could just google but thanks for the info! -George
.frm simply holds the structure. There is no data in it. See this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5745221/import-frm-and-opt-files-to-mysql Niel
Hey Nigel, I did see that thread but didn't really understand it? So does that mean I may have incomplete backup or is there still a possibility of restoring if I hire someone that knows what they are look at LOL thanks!