Hi all,
I'm doing my first BackdropCMS site migration, following this official guide.
I've already gone through all the steps listed there, but I realize that after an apparently successful configuration and database import, that many of the configurations didn't migrate over successfully, despite no errors when I exported & imported the entire site configuration. Which has resulted in orphaned or lost field data.
For example, some custom content types, fields, field instances and views didn't import over at all.
So, I've been manually importing various configurations one by one using the single import/export feature.
The thorniest issue I'm hitting so far is a situation like this one:
There was a problem creating field Paragraphs: The field "field_paragraphs" could not be created because a database table with the name "field_data_field_paragraphs" already exists.
As of now, using the content type UI, I can't seem to manually create the field instance without choosing a different field instance name.
Any tips?
Ah, I see. Sorry, I hadn't clicked the link and assumed it was the instructions for upgrading from Drupal 7.
If you are simply copying a site from one location on a server to another, the language of "migration" seems off to me. I think all you'd need to do is make sure that these items are copied into the respective locations:
At that point the site should just work without a separate migration step needed.