Hi, I have a three or four year old Ghost installation that went down after my server provider updated the machine, and I’ve been unable to get it back up in its current form.
I would like to move to Ghost 1.0, but I don’t have a way of exporting my data for import into a new Ghost setup (because I can’t get it to run). I have managed to collect the content folder from the current installation though, is there a way to import the content folder into a new Ghost setup, other than manually?
So for anyone interested, I managed to find a solution by looking at the version of my ghost installation on the messed up server, and installing a local copy of that release locally. Then I took a few guesses at what Node version I was probably using around the time I set up the old server and tried the old npm install until I found a node version in which that command succeeded. Then I was able to get a local ghost blog at the old version running. At that point, I swapped the ghost.db file and restarted the server and lo and behold, it worked. I was able to log into the local installation and export a json file which imports relatively successfully to a new ghost v1.0.0+
FYI Ghost staff aren’t really active on the weekend.
This is absolutely the best and pretty much only approach that doesn’t involve horrible data munging Glad to hear you figured it out and got it working.
Glad to hear you figured it out and got it working.