Reply To: Migrating from one bbpress installation to another
Jason, what we’ve found so far, this plugin —
https://github.com/pippinsplugins/bbPress-Export-and-Import
It does the job exceedingly well. HOWEVER, our forum is so big the plugin cannot finish importing data. We use WP Engine for hosting, and they have a “Limit Script Execution” script that cancels any active script after 60 seconds. So we only have 60 seconds for the script to run.
Now 60 seconds gets us about 20% successful import percentage of Forum Topics, Replies and User Accounts. Then we get a 502 Bad Gateway page.
If it weren’t for the script timeout, this project would be done with. So for that, I am splitting up my export .csv file into 10 chunks. The original file is 25,000 lines or so. I’ll split them into 2k-2.5k chunks and import them one after another.
Going to get around to that part either tonight or early next week. Jason, if you try it out please let me know how it goes 🙂
