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Submitted by mikeryan on Fri, 2009-03-27 00:25

This wiki page lists references helpful to administrators and developers dealing with migrating websites to Drupal. Feel free to add additional references you feel will be helpful.

Tools

Migration modules

These modules directly migrate external data into Drupal.

  • Import HTML: Facility to import an existing, static HTML site structure into the Drupal CMS as structured nodes.
  • Migrate: The migrate module provides a flexible framework for migrating content into Drupal from other sources (e.g., when converting a web site from another CMS to Drupal). Out-of-the-box, support for creating Drupal nodes, users, and comments is included - hooks permit migration of other types of content.
  • Node import: This module allows you to import a set of nodes from a Comma Separated Values (CSV) or Tab Separated Values (TSV) text file.
  • User import: Import users into Drupal or update existing users with data from a CSV file (comma separated file).

Support modules

These modules, while not directly migrating data into Drupal, have been found to be helpful in the migration process.

  • Schema: The Schema module provides additional Schema-related functionality not provided by the core Schema API that is useful for module developers..
  • Table Wizard: The Table Wizard facilitates dealing with database tables. Among other things, it surfaces external tables through Views, and analyzes the data in such tables.

Other tools

What tools other than Drupal modules are helpful in migration?

References

Links to discussions, documentation, etc. helpful to anyone involved in data migration.

Migrate module Presentation at DrupalCon DC


See the full video at archive.org
http://www.archive.org/details/DrupalconDc2009-MigrationNotJustForTheBirds

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