XF 2.3 Deleting old vbulletin db - safe?

[Jon12345]

I had an old vbulletin 3.8 site. Everything was brought across to my xenforo setup, and urls redirected. There is still the old vbulletin db sitting in the myself section in cpanel. Is it safe to delete this or will I lose all those redirects? I don't know how it works so fear that maybe the vbulletin pages are indexed in Google, if someone lands there, you then get redirected to the equivalent xenforo page.

Anyone know the answer to this?

 

[mjda]

Your redirects should be using an import_log table in your XenForo database. If I'm not mistaken, this should be a table name that you specified during the import. I'd probably check to make sure that's there, download a backup of your original vB database, then delete it. It should be perfectly safe to delete it now, though.

 

[Jon12345]

Do all the attachments, user icons etc get moved across to a different folder too when you do the import?

 

[mjda]

Do all the attachments, user icons etc get moved across to a different folder too when you do the import?

Yes, all of those should now be in the internal_data and/or data folders, depending on what they are.

 

[briansol]

As above, once everything is imported, the vb db is not needed anymore. xf migration tool brings it all over to the destination db.

I highly suggest you tar/gz the whole thing and throw it on glacier or some other cold storage for pennies just in case. I wish i had mine from 2005, but i canned it.
but it certainly doesn't need to be in your cpanel taking up space.

 

[Jon12345]

Ok, deleted and hoping for the best! Thanks for the advice.