Use ImpEx or Upgrade Scripts from vB2?

[pelicanparts]

Hi all. I have a vB2 installation that I am probably finally going to be upgrading to the latest version of VB.

Question: is it better to use the upgrade scripts, or ImpEx to move the forum to the latest version? My forum is quite large with 46,000 members, 350,000 threads, and 3.2 million posts.

Thanks in advance,

Wayne

[Wayne Luke]

vBulletin 3.6.7 is drastically different from your existing vBulletin 2 forum. None of your code modifications or style changes will convert to vBulletin 3.6.7 so you will have to do these from scratch. If you do have code modifications, you should read about plugins and products at http://www.vbulletin.org and in the documentation. This is a better way to handle addons than directly editing the PHP code. You should also look at the API at http://members.vbulletin.com/api.


I would suggest installing vBulletin 3.6.7 in a separate directory on a new database. Then make all your style and setting changes in the new forum. Once that is done import your existing posts using Impex. This would give you the least amount of downtime.