Rehosting a snapshot under another Discourse

[srmoore (Steve Moore)]

Hello, I have a question about rehosting an old Discourse Forum.
A little background, I’m the custodian of an old open source community forum (i.e. I have a snapshot taken from Discourse, shortly before it was shut down). After some discussion, another open source community has stepped up about the possibility of hosting the forum under their own Discourse. Is there any easy way to handle this? What would be the best practice for the old communities personal information / passwords?
Any help/advice would be appreciated, as I am not a Discourse expert.
Thanks,
-steve

[itsbhanusharma (Bhanu Sharma)]

Hi @srmoore
Have you read

How to merge two Discourse sites

If you have two Discourse sites that you wish were one, this guide is for you. There’s a tool called discourse_merger that can take one Discourse site and merge it into another. Prereqs This is not an easy task, and should be treated like any other migration to Discourse. You will not be running discourse_merger on a live production site. You will perform the merge in another environment where you can review the output before moving the result to production. Copy vs Merge Almost everything …

It answers all of your questions

[srmoore (Steve Moore)]

Interesting, thanks for the pointer. I’ll have to see what the person running the ‘new’ site is comfortable doing, as I’m merely holder of the old site at this point.
-steve