XF 1.5 Creating clean backup, after creating test user/post

[octabrain]

Hi there,
I'm in the process of moving an existing forum from another software to Xenforo.

Unfortunately the first thing I did after installing Xenforo was creating a test user and posting a topic on the forum, didn't think much about it and went on to install addons and do all sorts of customizations.
So now I only got a backup of the database that already contains a topic and a user.

Is there a way to clean that up, so that I can import while retaining IDs from the old forum?

 

[Pierce]

Just import and tick keep original id's during the process which is very very slick.

I've done the same as you from vb3 and from vb4

(2 forums)

 

[octabrain]

Thanks for the answer. But does that work if I have a topic already in there? In the description for keeping the original IDs it says: 'If you have existing XenForo data, this will fail'.
I'm still in the process of writing my importer, as I'm importing from a system, that's not well-known, so I can't really test it yet...

 

[Aivaras]

...all sorts of customizations.

Do you mean template changes? Those can be easily exported and imported.

 

[Kev Collins]

I did exactly the same and when trying to import and retain IDs got an error due to making the post in the created node. What I have done on advice from Brogan was a complete reinstall and went straight to import and everything worked as it should whilst retaining post IDs.

 

[octabrain]

Do you mean template changes? Those can be easily exported and imported.

I installed some addons, did some changes on them, custom css, changed some templates.

 

[Aivaras]

I installed some addons, did some changes on them, custom css, changed some templates.

I would suggest 1) exporting your current customized style (which will include any changes you've made to the HTML and CSS templates), 2) Do a new installation of the forum software; 3) import your customized style.