help needed with backup and moving to another host

[yanxin]

Are you looking to maintain two different stores with one set of login, or is it going to be a "transfer" of databases/stores? There is a good bit of history that goes with each customer and purchase which is also tied to specific products. Because of that, not transferring all product/people information will result in historical data being lost. Relatively easy would be to use SQL Database Backup to backup all of the data, then remove the tables from the file that are not applicable to restoring the information. Just my two cents though.

If trying to have two stores using the same login data, then I think there is a multi-store plugin that would help with that.

hi it doesn't matter about customer history being lost etc all i want is for them to be able to log into the new website so they don't have to all register again. the website will have totally different products from the first website. i could send them all a mass email asking them to register but i would rather they are already registered. so basically i just want to clone the customers over and nothing more. is there a guide on how to do this for example what part of sql to backup etc?

thanks

[mc12345678]

hi it doesn't matter about customer history being lost etc all i want is for them to be able to log into the new website so they don't have to all register again. the website will have totally different products from the first website. i could send them all a mass email asking them to register but i would rather they are already registered. so basically i just want to clone the customers over and nothing more. is there a guide on how to do this for example what part of sql to backup etc?

thanks

Okay, so you are wanting to keep both sites active, but with different products. I thought the multi-site plugin would allow you to maintain two sets of products, all controlled from a single admin login but controlling multiple different sitesm. So, the issue your customers will have ifu simply clone off the tables is that when it comes timme to or they happen to change their password in one store, the others won't follow. Also things like their addresses (personal and favorite) etc... All of that will be behind in one store or another.