Hello! I have the following question: Since 2017 I have a SMF forum with now about 4000 posts. Last year I had in parallel a Discourse forum with about 1000 posts, but it is not online at the moment, because I went back to SMF in December 2021. Well, I just don’t like SMF anymore, so I would lik…

I’m not sure if discourse supports native backups from SMF. I know the official Discourse team can assist with migrations, but I don’t know the cost. In the past, I’ve used the Discourse API to migrate large amounts of forum data. I created my categories on the Discourse forum. Once done, I created…

In the docs is an instruction how to migrate from SMF to Discourse. https://meta.discourse.org/docs?topic=90314 With a script to scrape the data from SMF and import it to Discourse would be good, if I could program such things. :wink:

Ah, ok. I didn’t know they had official docs on how to migrate from SMF2. Is your forum an SMF2 or SMF1 forum?

Yes and no, it’s a SMF 2.1.x, and SMF changed a lot from 2.0.x to 2.1.x And I still have the problem to merge both forums.

ok. Thanks for that information :slight_smile: At what step in the migration guide are you having an issue?

see also: Merge two Discourse sites into one With the caveat that I’ve not done migrations myself, my approach would be: migrate your SMF data to a new instance merge the two Discourse instances with the above guide

Well, we all have our hammers, but I found the merge to DIscourse sites script to miss a bunch of edge cases (I can’t quite remember what they were now). And then you’ve got two transitions to make. I’d probably just run the SMF script on top of the existing Discourse site. When I’ve done that I’ve…

[圖片] Michael Henderson: ok. Thanks for that information :slight_smile: At what step in the migration guide are you having an issue? Well, I haven’t started right now. But, my question was 1. if this script works with SMF2.1, and 2. if it’s possible to merge an SMF into an existing Discourse…

[圖片] Alex: I don’t need everything from SMF, just the posts, topics and users. That’s pretty much everything that gets imported. It’s likely easier to import the categories than not to. [圖片] Alex: Maybe I have to tinker to get it to work. Yes. And there is no way to know how much work…

I think I will do the following steps: Take my SMF and move every topic (with posts) into one category and then make a backup from the db. Install a fresh Discourse and import the SMF backup ( hope the import script will work with SMF 2.1). Delete and reinstall discourse and then upload my Discour…

合并Discourse和SMF

支持迁移

supermathie (Michael Brown) 2022年十一月1日 14:13 7

另请参阅：Merge two Discourse sites into one

需要注意的是，我没有亲自进行过迁移，但我的方法是：

将您的 SMF 数据迁移到一个新的实例
使用上述指南合并两个 Discourse 实例

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