One part of setting up the YLF forum development server did not run very smoothly: replicating the database. I wanted to get a full version of the current YLF forum with all 20,272 posts by 1214 users. There is no backup or import/export functionality currently built in to bbPress (or available as a plug-in), so [...]

This is filed under the heading “I don’t know why the solution works, but it does, and that’s good enough for me”. The YLF forum is currently based on bbPress 0.8.3 (great forum system, more on that in future posts). I was setting up a development server to test some new features and hit a [...]