# How should category archiving work?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-should-category-archiving-work/32895>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [4 בספטמבר,‏ 2015,‏ 12:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-should-category-archiving-work/32895 "2015-09-04T00:03:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [25 בינואר,‏ 2016,‏ 7:12am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-should-category-archiving-work/32895/7 "2016-01-25T07:12:44Z")

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There may also be some mapping here for **moving a category to a different Discourse instance** , which we have at least one paying customer wanting to do

> What we need:
> 
> - Copy one category
> - Copy all of its sub-categories (10)
> - Copy all posts in these categories (\<50)
> - Copy all members that belong to the custom group; keep current usernames, email and passwords of these users on the new forum

Same basic area of work, IMO. Splitting one Discourse into another is a logical thing to do, only difference I can see in this case is that instead of transferring the entire category to `/dev/null` we are **copying** it to another Discourse instance..

Anyway keep that in mind as we work on this @neil!

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