We've been using Drupal 6.x (on Dreamhost) along with CiviCRM. There have been many problems - some of which may be me, some are Drupal, and some are Dreamhost (including a recent spate of unspecified downtown and weird file behavior). And of course it always happens at the worst possible time of year (i.e., right when we're heading into our biggest fund raising event of the year).
So we're moving to a new host. While we're at it, I'm concerned there might be issues with the database itself, and upgrading will just perpetuate those problems. (Including the well-loved semaphore problem - which I thought I had resolved thanks to a helpful forumite, and then all hell broke loose. Not sure if it was the fix or something screwy with Dreamhost. Is there some way to do a fresh Drupal 7 install, install modules as needed, and then import the content from the old install?
I do not want to have to recreate content, the menu structure, etc., manually (or copying/pasting). There's too much for that.
P.S. Is there a way to direct the forum to email me when there are followup posts? I hate to miss responses or check the forum neurotically.
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I've since found other forum
I've since found other forum posts asking the same question - all unanswered.
Here's what I've found.
http://drupal.org/project/node_export The Node Export module can help with just this sort of thing. Whatever screwy is going on with my on install in preventing this from working for me.
By exporting/importing MySQL tables http://www.journeymm.com/blogs/drupal/importing-and-exporting-nodes-taxo...
This is probably the method I'll go with if I don't find anything bettter.