# Database reload

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**Category:** Migration\
**Created:** [December 16, 2024, 1:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/database-reload/342655 "2024-12-16T13:52:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 16, 2024, 1:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/database-reload/342655/1 "2024-12-16T13:52:53Z")

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I have a large phpbb database I am migrating. I want to do most of the migration while the old site remains active. Then, on migration weekend, rerun the migration script after reloading the database. This will reduce the migration weekend only to import a couple of thousand user posts versus 300,000.

1. is this feasible? Does the migration script maintain the restart points outside the MySQL database?
2. is there an easy way to make the script upload a new database dump without resetting the previous work or duplicating it?

Any best practices or suggestions would be welcomed.

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