Moved site = Missing data. How to restore?

  • My client’s site was handed to me with a few problems… one of which is missing order information. With a host change planned, a development site was created at the new host for tweaks, with all data imported to the new site. For a month orders were placed at the old site/old server. When they decided to go live with the new site, they changed the A record to the new space… so a month of order information is missing from the current site.

    I have a .sql file containing all data from the old site up to the time of the switch. But having never imported a file like this (particularly with woocommerce data), I’m concerned that I’ll overwrite something that shouldn’t be overwritten (tweaks to the site made at the new server during the month), or that I’ll end up with thousands of duplicated bits (pages, products, orders), or that I would simply break something.

    What is the best way to get those records for that month out of the sql file and into the woocommerce store?

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  • Shasta

    (@shastaw)

    I’m sure you’ve solved it, but I may as well put the answer here in case others like me come looking: You can use the WP import/export tool to do this. It has options for just exporting/importing orders, or “everything”.

    One caveat: if the version on the old and new sites aren’t the same it may fail. I found your post while trying to figure out why mine wasn’t working, but once I realized there was an update with database changes, it worked just fine.

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