Transferring a forum from one server to the other

[Vivi Ornitier]

Ya recently i'm abotus to move servers.

ANyway, I backed up the forums from the back-up database featuer in the admin panel and i got about a 45 meg .sql file.

On my new server, i've set up phpadmin and a uploaded all my forum files but that's it. What do i do with the big 45 meg .sql file? Cause there isn't a palce in phpadmin that just say import everything. What do i do to get the database good again?

[Link14716]

The backup feature in the admin pannel and phpMyAdmin are not reliable at all. If you have SSH or Telenet access, back up and restore the database using that. ;)

[Steve Machol]

<a href="http://www.vbulletin.com/manual/movingservers.html" target="_blank">http://www.vbulletin.com/manual/movingservers.html</a>

[Vivi Ornitier]

How do u use Telnet/SSH? I heard of that but don't know the specs of it at all.

[Steve Machol]

<a href="http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?postid=394378#post394378" target="_blank">http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...378#post394378</a>

[Vivi Ornitier]

that makes hardly any sense. I don't know what telnet and SSH are so defining that and where to get it would be a good start.

[Steve Machol]

Sorry, it's the best definition I could find for you. In fact that thread contains a link to a perfectly good SSH client. Apparnetly this is not good enough so I'll stop trying to help now.

[Icheb]

Vivi Ornitier: google.com might help you with SSH, too.