# How should category archiving work?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-should-category-archiving-work/32895
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [September 4, 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: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2016, 7:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-should-category-archiving-work/32895/8 "2016-01-25T07:42:40Z")

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Moving category spec is here:

> [@CLI command to migrate a single category](https://meta.discourse.org/t/cli-command-to-migrate-a-single-category/35728):
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> We need to build a general purpose tool for moving a category from one Discourse instance to another. This has come up on one of our customers and is also useful for a variety of use cases: Use cases for category import / export (current need) During huge migrations we may need to avoid long term downtime, so we need to run a temporary site on one domain and then ship the content (eventually) to the new imported site In some cases category partitioning is not strong enough, we have seen t…

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