# Migrating vBulletin onto existing and live Discourse instance

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrating-vbulletin-onto-existing-and-live-discourse-instance/54236
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [Dezembro 14, 2016, 1:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrating-vbulletin-onto-existing-and-live-discourse-instance/54236 "2016-12-14T13:52:01Z")
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### Author: ![steko](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c77e96/32.png) [@steko](https://meta.discourse.org/u/steko)
#### Post date: [Dezembro 14, 2016, 4:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/migrating-vbulletin-onto-existing-and-live-discourse-instance/54236/6 "2016-12-14T16:07:50Z")

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Having done this myself I suggest to create a separate temporary Discourse instance for the purpose of converting the existing vBulletin content. Then you can:

- export the bulk of the posts and users from the temporary Discourse
- import the migrated content into the first Discourse in a category (e.g. _Old forum_)

You can follow this howto

> [@Move topics from one Discourse instance to another](https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-and-category-export-import/38930):
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> Need to move some stuff from one instance of Discourse to another? There is a command line tool to export a topic, a set of topics, or an entire category, and another to import them in at the other end. Topic Export/Import one or more topics and their replies the users who posted in the topic Category Export/Import the category and all its subcategories its security settings custom groups mentioned in the security settingswarning if any of the groups have ‘membership requests’ enable…

for the details of the export import procedure.

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