Add backup to existing Discourse instance

[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…