[Stu]

1. on your old server go into IKon Admin and select Backup, depending on what version you have it may ask you how many posts to do at a time, select something like 1000.

this will create a .tar backup file on the server.

2. Log into the server with FTP and download the .tar file to your PC

3. On your new server Install Ikon but with sql database

4. Log into new server with FTP and upload the .tar backup file

5. On new server go into IKon Admin and change database type to DBM

6. Still on new server, go into IKon Admin and select Restore, to restore the .tar backup file.

after this you should have IKon running with a dbm database on the new server. (same as on the old server)

Now go into IKon admin and change the 'Use Database' to SQL

Now you should have IKon using the sql database, you can now install vB and use the importer to import Ikon to vB.