# Help to merge forum from Kunena
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-to-merge-forum-from-kunena/73611
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [Novembro 7, 2017, 4:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-to-merge-forum-from-kunena/73611 "2017-11-07T16:50:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@frold](https://meta.discourse.org/u/frold)
#### Post date: [Novembro 7, 2017, 4:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-to-merge-forum-from-kunena/73611/1 "2017-11-07T16:50:17Z")
I have been traveling the long forum road. For more then 15 years I have been running a community for medical students in Denmark @ [studmed.dk](http://www.studmed.dk)
For the first years I have been using phpBB2. Then in I did migrate to Joomla using Kunena on top of it. I have runned the site as a non-commerciel, none advertising site.
And now my site have been hacked and is down 😪 Therefore I would like to give Discourse a try!
But damn there is a steep learning curve using discourse!
I did setup a Ubuntu server using vultr and was able to install Discourse. And then there is the migration issue.
Seems like I need a ph.D in serverhosting and programming… Im not able to do the import script thing ☹
What will it cost to get someone to do it for me?
I have the .sql file and the attachment folder…
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [Novembro 7, 2017, 5:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-to-merge-forum-from-kunena/73611/2 "2017-11-07T17:50:32Z")
There are import scripts for kunena and Kunena3. I apparently did some work on the Kunena 3 script and you can read about that here: [Migrate a Kunena 3 forum to Discourse](https://meta.discourse.org/t/importing-from-kunena-3/43776).
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### Author:  [@frold](https://meta.discourse.org/u/frold)
#### Post date: [Novembro 8, 2017, 9:51am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-to-merge-forum-from-kunena/73611/3 "2017-11-08T09:51:16Z")
Yep I know.
But Im not able to run it as I dont know howto run discourse and a mysql server at the same setup…
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [Novembro 9, 2017, 12:10am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-to-merge-forum-from-kunena/73611/4 "2017-11-09T00:10:28Z")
I do several imports a month. I sent you a personal message. You can also post specifics of your project (number of posts and users, timeine) with a budget in the #Marketplace.
Let me know if you’d like my help.
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### Author:  [@frold](https://meta.discourse.org/u/frold)
#### Post date: [Novembro 9, 2017, 11:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-to-merge-forum-from-kunena/73611/5 "2017-11-09T11:01:05Z")
Thanks
But I dont have that much money for this issue.
The site was driven in my spare time as a non-commerciel forum.
It have 10.000 users (many old “dead” users) 5000 posts and 40.000 replies.
I try to see if Im able to add mysql2 to my discourse setup and run the import script.
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### Author:  [@frold](https://meta.discourse.org/u/frold)
#### Post date: [Novembro 14, 2017, 1:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-to-merge-forum-from-kunena/73611/6 "2017-11-14T13:05:17Z")
What do you think it will cost if I give you my sql database backup file.
And you import it and make a backup file I could use on my vanilla board and import it there?
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [Janeiro 6, 2020, 9:46am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-to-merge-forum-from-kunena/73611/7 "2020-01-06T09:46:08Z")
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### Author:  [@Remah](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Remah)
#### Post date: [Janeiro 6, 2020, 8:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-to-merge-forum-from-kunena/73611/8 "2020-01-06T20:14:57Z")
Não sei como a migração aconteceu, mas o site do Discourse está funcionando com sucesso.
> [@Forum for medical students - a wordpress and discourse site (praise and showcase)](https://meta.discourse.org/t/forum-for-medical-students-a-wordpress-and-discourse-site-praise-and-showcase/132482?u=remah):
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> I have been running a forum for medical students in [Denmark](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denmark) since 2001 - as a non-commercial and sparetime project. The last 10+ years I have been a medical doctor - but I still want to have a place for medical students and comming students - where they can debate. I have been all the way around starting with [phpBB2](https://www.phpbb.com/), later phpBB3 for a short periode of time. Then I went to Joomla with Kunena as the forum. In november 2017 I [merged](https://meta.discourse.org/t/howto-install-discouse-vultr-and-import-from-kunena3/74269) to Discourse. I have been a happy user ever since. The new sit…
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### Author:  [@neil](https://meta.discourse.org/u/neil)
#### Post date: [Janeiro 8, 2020, 3:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/help-to-merge-forum-from-kunena/73611/9 "2020-01-08T15:52:36Z")