Migration from Nabble to vB, IBP, or other forums?

[dhutch]

Purely out of interest, how feastable is to migrate a forum (content and members) from a nabble based board to another board?

We're very happy with our nabble board and have no reason to change at present however having been part of a forum that around 5 years ago used an old and relativly unsupported forum platform and was unable to migrate any of the forum content when it moved to a new platform data compatabilty is always something im keen on.



Daniel

[Hugo <Nabble>]

That's a very good question and we care about this. In one or two weeks forum owners will be able to download their forum content in the XML format (zipped). So they will be able to save their own backup or parse this data with some programming language to achieve a goal (e.g., import elsewhere).

[elifarley]

Hugo,

Do you guys have an example application which transforms Nabble's xml backup into MBOX format (which is a fairly common one)?

[Hugo <Nabble>]

This shouldn't be difficult. If the message is an archived email - which is the most common case - you can get the original email (headers+message+etc.) from the "message" field in the XML files. The only case that is not trivial is when the post was created on the Nabble website (e.g., the user clicked on "New Topic" or "Reply", wrote the message and the system sent the email to the mailing list on his/her behalf). In this case, you would have to investigate which headers you need to build from the available information. Maybe only subject, date, from, to and message ID, but I am not sure. So this work requires some investigation.