Hello, I am currently moving from vbulletin to discourse forums.Import scripts ( scripts/import_scripts/vbulletin.rb ) were running fine and 2.3 million posts are transferred out of 2.5 million.But now it is stopping after 1-2k posts.Anyone can help?

Are you getting an error message of any type? Are you running it locally or on your server? What the the specs of the relevant machine(s)? Could the import process be running out of memory? Have you tried copying the data and running the script locally on a system with a large amount of RAM?

Hi, I cannot help with technical issues but we also had some problems migrating to Discourse. Have a look here for a discussion that helped us. [image] Migrate a vBulletin 4 forum to Discourse Sysadmins In this tutorial we will learn how to migrate vBulletin forum to discourse platform using vBulletin importer script. I have tested the script with a big database and the result was very good. The script is well written and maintained. Let’s get started slight_smile What data can be imported? Groups Users Banned Users => Suspended Users Forums Each parent and child forum => Category and Sub-category Topics Sticky Thread => Pinned Topic Closed Thread => Closed Topic Soft Deleted Thr…

Thank you mates i have solved the issue. My swap space gets filled and it chokes the process. Now added more swap space and it is working fine.

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Affer_Raza (Affer Raza) August 24, 2018, 6:50am 3

No error message is displayed.
I am running it on my server which still have 16gb free and with 2gb RAM.
Sometimes it runs for 15 to 20k posts but it stops then too.

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