Importing a vBulletin 4.2.1 Big Board

[AndrewSimm]

I have a board with over 1.5 million post and over 700 CMS articles.

Could the importer that I assumes comes with xenforo support such a migration?
Would would i do with the articles?

What are some of the issues others have ran into?

I want to get a test forum up and hopes of going live in 6 months.

 

[Jeremy]

I do not believe the official importer imports articles, however, I believe the unofficial importers import them as threads.

 

[AndrewSimm]

I guess my hope is they could be imported into a table so if xenforo offers a cms in the future they could be brought back to life. Could the official importer handle such a large database? Im curious to hear replies from others than have done the same.

 

[Jeremy]

It may take a while to complete, but yes, it can handle your database.

 

[Moshe1010]

The unofficial importer imports them as threads. You can then install XenPorta and make it right.

 

[AndrewSimm]

So I guess it puts it in its own forum?

Does XenPorta do anything with vbulletin sections and categories?

 

[Marcus]

I guess my hope is they could be imported into a table so if xenforo offers a cms in the future they could be brought back to life.

You can just copy the table in phpmyadmin from one database to the other. 700 articles maybe just a few MB, you can also export them in phpmyadmin as a .sql and then import them in your new database.

If you use the same database, you don't even have to copy the table.

 

[0ptima]

I have a board with over 1.5 million post and over 700 CMS articles.

Could the importer that I assumes comes with xenforo support such a migration?
Would would i do with the articles?

If you can get your CMS articles converted to threads, then you can probably use this addon to convert them into articles.

 

[AndrewSimm]

Ok so where is the importer that comes with xenforo?

 

[AndrewSimm]

oh wow nevermind