# Preserving site settings through migration
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/preserving-site-settings-through-migration/214452
**Category:** Migration
**Created:** [January 10, 2022, 9:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/preserving-site-settings-through-migration/214452 "2022-01-10T21:48:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@schwa](https://meta.discourse.org/u/schwa)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2022, 9:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/preserving-site-settings-through-migration/214452/1 "2022-01-10T21:48:33Z")
Hi Discourse,
Is there a best practice for saving and restoring the Discourse site settings, separate from the user and post content?
We’re looking at migrating a big vB forum (~150k users) to Discourse. We’re expecting an iterative, lengthy process to get the import right. We’ll also be spending some time beforehand getting the Discourse site settings configured for our uses.
Ideally we’d be able to get the site settings how we want them at our leisure, then export them, then spend however long it takes to get the migration right without worrying about the site settings, then do a final migration import, knowing that we can import our site settings cleanly/quickly when the migration is complete.
Thanks for any guidance!
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### Author:  [@supermathie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/supermathie)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2022, 9:55pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/preserving-site-settings-through-migration/214452/2 "2022-01-10T21:55:56Z")
This tool will probably meet your needs by letting you export and then later re-import the Site Settings:
> [@Export and import site settings](https://meta.discourse.org/t/export-and-import-site-settings/148184/4):
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> This might help
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### Author:  [@schwa](https://meta.discourse.org/u/schwa)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2022, 9:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/preserving-site-settings-through-migration/214452/3 "2022-01-10T21:59:16Z")
Looks like the answer, thank you!
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2022, 2:26pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/preserving-site-settings-through-migration/214452/4 "2022-01-11T14:26:56Z")
Well, I’m not entirely sure that it works anymore, but it might.
See also [Administrative Bulk Operations](https://meta.discourse.org/t/administrative-bulk-operations/118349#heading--7)
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### Author:  [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2023, 3:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/preserving-site-settings-through-migration/214452/5 "2023-03-03T15:15:22Z")