Rukas
Mon 22nd Jan '07, 12:03am
Hey,
Ive been running this forum since about 1999, with constant upgrades and a couple fresh installs, something has always carried through from generation to generation so to speak; whether a hack or a style element, whatever.
The forum is rather large, and Ive got a lot of tables in the database from add ons I no longer use (such as the arcade for example), and I would like to clean things up so that the database is smaller and quicker.
Basically I would like a totally fresh install of vBulletin, but I would like to keep all the users, threads, posts and things that go with it (ie. attachments, PMs, etc etc).
What is the best and safest way of doing this? I was thinking about setting up a separate server, which I can do, doing a fresh install, and copying over the database, but how do I do it so I only copy over the things I want? Will this work? Is there an easier way to do it?
Thanks in advance. (Im currently running 3.5.2 - patched.)
Ive been running this forum since about 1999, with constant upgrades and a couple fresh installs, something has always carried through from generation to generation so to speak; whether a hack or a style element, whatever.
The forum is rather large, and Ive got a lot of tables in the database from add ons I no longer use (such as the arcade for example), and I would like to clean things up so that the database is smaller and quicker.
Basically I would like a totally fresh install of vBulletin, but I would like to keep all the users, threads, posts and things that go with it (ie. attachments, PMs, etc etc).
What is the best and safest way of doing this? I was thinking about setting up a separate server, which I can do, doing a fresh install, and copying over the database, but how do I do it so I only copy over the things I want? Will this work? Is there an easier way to do it?
Thanks in advance. (Im currently running 3.5.2 - patched.)