XF 2.0 Importer for vBulletin 4.2.5

[HolyK]

Hello,

we're about to migrate our community to XF2 from vB 4.2.5. I wonder if there will be direct importer available upon XenForo 2 RELEASE or if we will still need to go through XF 1 import?

Thank you in advance for the reply

Alex

 

[Paul B]

There won't be importers available when XF2 is officially released, it will be some time after.

The current advice is to import into XF1 then upgrade to XF2.

 

[HolyK]

Thank you for your swift reply!

So the proper way is as follows:
- Import to XF1
- Upgrade XF1 to XF2

This will cause a bit more downtime for us as we will need to go through the settings after the XF upgrade. So my question is if we could do following:

- Install XF2(a) and do the basic engine configuration (No forums, users, groups or anything which would break the IDs of the source)
- Install XF1 (not touching the config) and import vB DB
- Upgrade XF1 to XF2(b)
- Import data (users, threads, forums, posts,... etc) from XF(b) to pre-configured XF(a) keeping the configuration in XF2(a)

EDIT:
- Thread-prefixes are imported as well or these are lost in the process?
- How is is with the user passwords? Will they work or each user need to reset his own password?