Question about transferring members and posts...

[turbidblue]

I recently had to remove my forum due to bandwidth issues and in the process had to switch hosts also..

So I tried the sql importing thing and all that and it didnt work out, so I did a fresh install and am starting over...

I was wondering how I would go about getting all my members i once had back onto the forum?

Also, how can I get the posts and forum data back?

I dont really care about anything else, just these two main items..?

I am sure this is all somewhere in the SQL file backup I have, but I dont know how to just get these two items out of it..

Is this possible?

Thanks for any help!

John

[xmitchx]

I belive you can use ImPex for a vB3 -> vB3 import.

[turbidblue]

edit:

Thanks for the input, but does anyone know for sure this can be done with vB? I no longer have my previous database running, so I cannot connect to a source db. All I have is a .sql backup file on my new server..

??

[Steve Machol]

You would need to restore the db backup to a new database in order to import it.

The only reliable method of restoring a database is with shell access via telnet orssh. Please see the instructions here:

http://www.vbulletin.com/docs/html/maintenance_ssh_restore