Merge Gone Wrong

[Shawn Gossman]

Have you ever done a forum merge and it went badly?

If yes, tell us about it!

 

[AWS]

A few times. It happens. Last one was a couple weeks ago. I went to merge one computer help forum into another. It stalled halfway and errors on a missing db table. I added the table and started the converter. It started from the beginning again duplicating what it already did. I stopped it rolled back to the backup I made before I started. Restarted the import and it went well.

I didn't use to make backups before doing an import. Something told me to make one this time. Glad I did.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

I usually backup before merging nowadays but I feel like I lost my big forum because the merge of the one I acquired probably was the culprit that corrupted the database.