I am wondering on if there is a method to copy the user base to a fresh install. I am thinking maybe in the old instance create new categories to house the topics that are desired to copy to the new install. Then on the original forum. I would like to copy certain topics not all of them to the ne…

[immagine] Heliosurge: create new categories to house the topics that are desired to copy to the new install. This will work Administrative Bulk Operations [immagine] Administrative Bulk Operations Export a set of complete categories (…) For example: rake export:categories["12 6"] (…) …

How many topics? Perhaps something like this: Create a backup from Forum 1 Create a new instance Restore backup from Forum 1 and call this Forum 2 Now you have two identical Discourse forums - 1 and 2 Delete topics/categories from Forum 1 Delete topics/categories from Forum 2

That unfortunately would be quite the under taking as the current forum has 8 years of content. Plus as a side idea. I may want to also copy topics from another forum as I have been creating user interface topics. So a backup would copy the entire instance when I am looking to just copy the user …

Thank you this looks like exactly what I am looking for. Will look at more of it as I imagine from the quick scan it will cover copying user base. Otherwise imagine it might have some complications importing the topics. :clinking_beer_mugs::star_struck::+1::sparkles: I imagine to move the files …

It covers the users that participated in one of the moved topics. [immagine] Heliosurge: I imagine to move the files to import use something like Rsync? Or scp which is usually a bit more simple to use.

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