I would like to know the possibility of backing up Only Site Settings, just as opposite of what was asked here [image] How to "migrate" Discourse to Discourse without Site Settings Support We need to migrate all our database to a new bigger server (digital…

[image] Vaishak_Kallore: I would like to know the possibility of backing up Only Site Settings, Save https://yoursite/admin/site_settings.json . Use GitHub - pfaffman/discourse-settings-uploader: Install a Discourse settings JSON file to a site · GitHub to upload them. To install these settin…

[image] Vaishak_Kallore: PS: I couldn’t understand by reading this I think @zogstrip suggested entering the forum database you want to replicate (via SSH), clone the site_settings table into that database and replace that particular table in each new site you’re going to create.

Alright. So, I need to install Discourse as usual and take this step to replicate the settings. Will the instance version different make any conflicts here? If we have to get the forum logo to new one, we will have to re-upload this, I suppose. Am I right?

This sounds good. Will try this method next time I create a new forum. I hope Discourse version difference will not make any issue, however I do update forums on regular basis… :slight_smile:

As long as the setting is available it will be set. Settings that don’t exists can’t get set, but make only that it doesn’t get set. For example, if you have a plugin installed on the system your are copying from its settings exist only if the target system has the plugin as well. When that happens …

Oh this would be such a life saver feature.

See here: Administrative Bulk Operations

it would be super amazing if you guys add an option to export/backup current site settings into a file, and then allow the new forum site to import this file and have the same site settings. Can anyone do this please? its a very cool feature in case i want to have a full clone of my site’s data + se…

[image] Faizan_Zahid: it would be super amazing if you guys add an option to export/backup current site settings into a file, and then allow the new forum site to import this file and have the same site settings. Two ways to do that are described above. [image] Faizan_Zahid: What options…

Thanks for the quick reply, Create a new forum. Backup your current forum. Restore that backup to the new forum. You can save some steps if both forums use the same S3 bucket for backups Why do i need to do the manual site settings only backup?, if the above method already backs up all plugins s…

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codinghorror (Jeff Atwood) Janvier 16, 2018, 10:25 3

I believe @techapj has expressed interest in this feature but we do not have it yet.

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