Question Copy entire forum content from one site to another

That looks great and installed straight away but I had permissions errors (bane of my life) and I don't know what I'm doing at this level.

I understand the concepts but Joomla is such a fiddle to get it just right that I'll probably end up stuffing up my site. I'll have a look at akeeba when my head stops hurting as i suspect this is a great package.

I've emailed the files I need to move to the support team. Let them do it. Much simpler.

Thanks for your help mate.

You're most welcome. As far as "permissions" are concerned, Joomlapack - I haven't personally used the later Akeeba Backup which was in alpha development the last time I looked - makes a few recommendations. You can adopt the Joomlapack recommendations or not, if you like.

By the way, last night I needed to totally empty a test site and restore it from a backup copy I made a month ago. This involved, deleting all the Joomla folders and files (which took about 30 minutes) and then performing a "kickstart" restore (kickstart.php is the "program" that takes a Joomlapack backup .ZIP file, expands it and then re-populates the SQL database with your site content). The restore took 15 minutes. Like I said: easy.

As far as Joomla folder/directory permissions are concerned: read What are the recommended file and directory permissions?

I did a system restore from plesk/cpanel which just over writes everything. Never considered I might be leaving old files in the site. Good point well made.

Right, I've managed to export all the user tables, etc that you suggested but I'm struggling to import them into the new database. I either get user denied or various error codes. I used youtube to find a tutorial for exporting which was ok but all the tutorials on importing don't cover the problems I'm experiencing.

Any suggestions would be helpful. Cheers.

Bruce

The specifics of the error messages - that you're getting - might help, Bruce. Not that it would help me; I don't do that kind of stuff. I just use Joomlapack when I want to copy an entire website from one place to another. Exporting/importing database tables is a level of detail that I don't want to dirty my hands with. Not really a Kunena problem, but maybe someone can help? :dry:

Yeah I'm not a fan either but I'm as poor as a church mouse who's just been made redundant from the flour mill and is ineligible to claim income support.

the error is dead simple - I exported ok but every time I try to import, I get his error: