I am wanting to transfer Users and Posts from an antique forum. It uses SQL Server and Snitz [forum software] (which has been dead for many years …) I’ve had a bit of a look at the import solutions offered here, and it looks like they rely on mounting a local restored database - MySQL or similar, …

Plenty of examples in the import scripts folder, there is no generic import tool. It’s likely going to require a small amount of ruby hacking unless you somehow get your data into one of the forums we already have an importer for, or do a 2 phase import.

Importing from a legacy forum

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) May 11, 2015, 4:20am 3

Yes, see

https://github.com/discourse/discourse/tree/master/script/import_scripts

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