I'm going to import the old IPBSetup database from when John ran it sometime this week.

 

I see another unique webmaster IPB DB that I may pick up and import as well.

 

So if you see some errors this week, I'm sure it's me breaking something :lol:

I'm sure you'll run into duplicate members. The IPB importer will create new members and you can merge them later. I know I will be one of them so after import just merge the users for me if you would.

ah okay, I'll have an account as well

well first attempts didn't go so well

 

I got a "Converted with errors" when I got to the member block, and than spent an hour fighting my database trying to import it.

 

I don't have SSH access, so I was using bigdump.php staggered database importer and some of the inserts were to long, like the spiders one.

 

Does anyone have some info on cleaning up your databse for a backup/restore?

 

I don't need to track all those spiders and website hits or anything, I have analytic to do that. :)

 

I'll try again tomorrow

I gave it another shot tonight and got to the same point with the member type, after I would put the path to the uploads and hit next I would see the pink DB error screen.

 

and while the others above will have Converted for the status, the member type had " Converted with errors"

 

I did some some nice tools to remove the conversion session so I didn't do a full restore this time.

 

I'll have to research and see what that error could mean. :blink:

If you got a converted with errors message it should have told you what the error was. I haven't done an IPB to IPB import yet so I can't help with the db error. I got a db error on my first conversion and I was able to solve the problem by reading the error logs in cache.

It was just a pink screen with a general error, no path anything.. Just said there was an error, click here to retry or a big link in the footer to the index.

 

I'll take a screen shot the next time

 

I'll try it one more time with everything as clean as I can get and if that doesn't work, I'll pay IPB to install it for 60$. :mellow:

You can find the error logs in the cache directory. Open the most recent after you get the error and it will tell you which query and which file is causing the error.

 

I was able to code around some of those errors after checking the error log which I happened to find by mistake.