CreationNation
Sun 25th Jul '04, 1:43am
I have a VB site with 30k+ users and tons of posts, threads etc. I have a potential client (YaBB SE) willing to join my site and they have their own 500+ users and tons of posts etc. as well.
Of course I am very nervous about an import process here :) Questions:
1) Has anyone successfully merged a semi large forum into their VB forum?
2) What kind of issues arose from it?
3) Duplicate users, am I correct that the YaBB users, if an existing VB user has the same name, the YaBB user will get a "Imported_" appended to the name?
4) Anything I should have a heads up about? I plan on backing up each DB. Also upgrading to VB 3.0.3 before I begin. I will also turn both boards off before beginning. I want to minimize down time on this. My backup of my VB site takes a long time as it is (2 GB tar file) so I am just looking to prepare for this as much as possible.
Thanks!
Of course I am very nervous about an import process here :) Questions:
1) Has anyone successfully merged a semi large forum into their VB forum?
2) What kind of issues arose from it?
3) Duplicate users, am I correct that the YaBB users, if an existing VB user has the same name, the YaBB user will get a "Imported_" appended to the name?
4) Anything I should have a heads up about? I plan on backing up each DB. Also upgrading to VB 3.0.3 before I begin. I will also turn both boards off before beginning. I want to minimize down time on this. My backup of my VB site takes a long time as it is (2 GB tar file) so I am just looking to prepare for this as much as possible.
Thanks!