restoring data from a different version of vbulletin

[brianpauljaus]

I was running a 4.0.x version of vbulletin for an old forums site. Something happen to the web server and we were not able to revive it. We only have the MYSQL database left. We currently rebuilt our web server and downloaded 4.1.3 vbulletin. Is there anyway we can restore this data in the raw mysql table formats ? We already tried in our lab and doing direct restores results in corruption as the schema between the versions is slightly different. Is there some easy way to import this data into our 4.1.3 version ?

[cellarius]

Restore your database, point vB config.php to that database, then run the upgrade script. It will detect the version of the database and run the necessary upgrade steps.

[brianpauljaus]

very nice, worked like a charm.... thanks !! :-)