Add backup to existing Discourse instance

[phntxx (bastian meissner)]

Hi,
is there any possibility of adding posts from a backup onto a working instance without replacing everything that’s already there?

[fefrei (Felix Freiberger)]

The best I can think of: Restore the backup to a temporary instance, then use this guide to export the topics you want and import them on your main install:

Topic and Category Export/Import

Need to move some stuff from one instance of Discourse to another? There is a command line tool to export a topic, a set of topics, or an entire category, and another to import them in at the other end. Topic Export/Import one or more topics and their replies the users who posted in the topic Category Export/Import the category and all its subcategories its security settings custom groups mentioned in the security settings if any of the groups have ‘membership requests’ enable…

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

The caveat is that the category that the topics are restored in to needs to be a new one. You can move topics around after that.

But if you mean restoring posts into an existing topic, there’s no way that I know of.

Perhaps say more about your particular situation.

[phntxx (bastian meissner)]

The post by @fefrei actually already helped me out - thanks again for that