# Rendere discourse\_merger parte del processo di backup/ripristino dell'amministratore?

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-discourse-merger-be-part-of-the-admin-backup-restore-process/97119>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [13 Settembre 2018, 1:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-discourse-merger-be-part-of-the-admin-backup-restore-process/97119 "2018-09-13T13:44:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**Post date:** [13 Settembre 2018, 3:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/make-discourse-merger-be-part-of-the-admin-backup-restore-process/97119/3 "2018-09-13T15:57:18Z")

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As you’ve outlined, merging forums is difficult and there are many things that can go wrong.

If you have multiple sources of data that you want to merge, then you’ll need to do something like you’ve outlined (e.g., modify the import script to look for a matching email address and use that user instead of creating a new one). And if you want to do it with a community that’s already live, you’ll need to run the import script on the live server, which is perilous.

Having done a couple dozen imports, the thing that is most striking is how different they all are. You’d think that after you’d done an import from WhateverGreatForum a couple times then it’d be a simple matter to do it again, but that’s almost never the case.

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