Best way to import/Export or Merge two drupal sites?
czarphanguye - June 15, 2007 - 13:13
So I have a Drupal forum archive with say 1,000 topics sitting on Drupal v4.7.x and now run a different Drupal v5.x forum. How might you go about merging the two database and/or export the forums and import into v5.x? The Import/Export module looks to export everything into CVS, yet the original node_ids remain which will over-write if imported to the other.
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Edit post disabled? anyways, http://drupal.org/project/importexportapi is the import/export module that looks alright.. yet I'm look for ideas.
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Hi czar,
I'm trying to do something very similar. I tried using the import/export api but it wouldn't work for exporting and importing the forums and posts.
Did you find a workaround?
Phil
"Did you find a
"Did you find a workaround?"
I've not found a way yet to import my content without overwriting and or conflicting nid/tid entries. As you see, your the first to reply to this request, yet your bump is welcomed as I find it amazing only you and I are trying to merge databases like this. ;-x
I did manage to import most of the users, yet the forums and blogs remain a mystery.
Regards,
Czar
Hands up
I'm in the same boat, so your not alone..
As a newbie to mySQL driven sites such as Drupal I am doing a lot of head scratching with merging production site content back into the development site so I can release the changes make in the development site without loosing anything from the production site.
The project found at http://drupal.org/project/dbscripts leads me to believe that options available are not for the faint hearted.
The blog for this package can be found here http://ceardach.com/blog/2008/06/development-production-database-merge-s...
Have a look and give it a go if you are familiar with shell.
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