Preparing final import, start from scratch?

[crepo]

We are still testing the conversion of or Snitz forum to vBulletin. Everything works now fine. :)

But I have still a question. The big night of the move, we want to speed up some things.

We have now a full vBulletin configuration. With all the general settings correct set.

Can we clean all the users / postings in the database (table: post, users, thread, postindex, phrase, userfield, usertextfield , and word) and do a new import of all the Snitz data?

Or do we need to start from a clean vBulletin configuration, and setup everything again? Hope not. :confused:

Thanks for the advice.
Peter

[Floris]

You can prune users and threads/posts yes. These options are available in the admin control panel.

[crepo]

Ok, delete all the users (except admin) and all threads and posts. After that do a clean index, rebuild all counters, fix, etc…

Redo the import of users, threads and posts.

Again rebuild, update counters, etc.

What I see is:
- on the statistics at the front page only 1 user, even if I look to the members and see that all my users are there.
- All the posts are there, but without the first original post.

Not so good. Tried this 2 times with the same result.

I think for the final move on a night the best will be starting from a new vBulletin installation and do all the general settings again. :eek:

Peter

[Jerry]

With any import I always advise :

1) Backing up the origional board.

2) Not disabling the live source board.

3) Praticing importing from a backup into vB3 to understand the process and see the out come, report bugs & ask questions etc.

4) Recording the time taken in impex & reconfig of vB3 post import and error checking.

5) Scheduling the outage with the live board.

6) Informing users.

7) Create a fresh install of vB3 as an import target.

8) Disable the live board.

9) Do the import and reconfigure the new vB3 post import.

10) Check the board.

11) If the import was ok, go with the import if something happend open the source origional board and go back to stage 3.