Ubb 6.2.1.1

[SwatSpawn]

I need to get the members from my 6.2.1.1 board and get them into my new vB 3.0.3 forum.

Any ideas on how to do this? Impex only goes from 6.3.x and up.

Thanks!

[Steve Machol]

Moved to Import forum so Jerry will see this.

[Jerry]

I belive that the current importer will work with that version.

Have you tried and it failed or asking before the event ?

[SwatSpawn]

I'm asking before the event. I dont want to blow up the system or something, ya know?!

ANother question though...

I have my ubb files on another server. I'm transferring servers as well as xfering boards (because my other server wont allow mysql access for a board.) Whats the best way to xfr the members, forums, and threads? I dont care about the PM's or anything else.

thanks!

[Jerry]

tar -cvf my_ubb_site.tar path_to_ubb/
gzip -9 my_ubb_site.tar


tar.gz the whole ubb directory up,ftp it over an un-compress it on the new server.


gzip -d my_ubb_site.tar.gz
tar -xvf my_ubb_site.tar


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When running the ubb_classic module of ImpEx, it will ask you for the specific paths, Members, etc. The interface tells you for the paths it is looking for and they will be in the ubb path some where.

ImpEx only ever reads from a source data soure, it never alters it.

Though I always advise having a back up of everything.

[SwatSpawn]

Yeah, there's a problem right there, I cant even get shell access to the server that the UBB is on. I'd have to download each individual file. With a few hundred thousand files thats not really an option.

What do you advise to just transfer the members only? Just downloading them and re-uploading?

[Jerry]

Its an option, though I would look at other ways of getting all the files off, i.e. uploading a perl/php script that would create the tar.gz file then ftp that out.

[SwatSpawn]

thats a good idea. Perhaps I'll write some PHP to do it for me.

Thanks

[SwatSpawn]

Just off the top of your head, would you have any links that might do this so I can save myself some time?

Thanks!

[Jerry]

Well if your old server has php installed, I just wrote this script and it works for me, just had to ensure that the directory was readable and the output path was writeable.