Here's the story. There was a vBulletin forum. The VPS it was running on was accidentally wiped, and the Previous administration had only one local (not on the vps) backup of the site. They didn't seem to want to invest the time to figure out how to get the old Database back, and so they sold the site. However, before selling the site, they started a completely new version of the site. There are a couple thousand posts on the site now. I bought the site, and I want to get the old DB to merge into the new one (that's currently running live).
The live data on the site is completely new, although the forums are the same .
In order to fix it, I've got a (Local) test site set up. I installed vBulletin, and then used ImpEx to merge a dump of the live site. It worked fine. Then I tried to merge the OLD DB (with the live site dump), and it didn't work.
08-08-2013, 05:54 PM
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