Data migrations (not upgrades)

In Part 1, we talked about using Backdrop CMS to run your entire business, from job tracking to stadium screens. Now, let’s get our hands dirty and talk infrastructure. If your business apps are critical, you need speed, reliability, and full control over your data.

We're trading expensive cloud bills and vendor lock-in for a lean, powerful, self-hosted infrastructure stack that keeps you in the driver's seat.

This is a deep dive into what DevOps need to develop, deploy, and automate your mission-critical Backdrop applications:

You already know Backdrop CMS builds great websites. But what if it could revolutionise your business processes, manage your clients, and even control the big-screen TV at sports stadiums?

A demo of what's new in Bee and what might be on the horizon.

What would you like to know about Bee?

We'll explore the situation PSU was in with multiple Drupal 7 sites, the decision and process of moving to Backdrop, and some of the efficiencies we found along the way to move these sites. 

•  Introduce D7 Soft Landing initiative
•  Explain why D7 EOL is a Big Deal (Chromatichq Podcast)
•  Discuss decision tree for getting off D7 (Blog Post)
• Present tools and flows for One-click /Simple/Easy migrations off D7  

What do Wordpress, Drupal, and Backdrop all have in common -- besides running on the LAMP Stack?  All three projects have valid roles to play providing offramps to the over 400,000 websites that are still running Drupal 7.  It's time to stop seeing each other as enemies, and look for ways to work together to get through this.

Ubercart in Backdrop is looking amazing!

Several members of the Backdrop community have devoted their time and knowledge to making this happen - working on coding, integrations and documentation.  Why not spin up a site on Backdrop, and test out this user-friendly set of modules.

We are hoping to hear from

In this session we're going to try a live upgrade of a Drupal 7 to both Drupal 10 and Backdrop CMS. 

Backdrop is a content management system -- it gives you lots of tools that help you manage content.  But where does that content come from?  How do you get it into the system?  How do you get it out?

I used feeds to add my initial content in bulk. Now I need to add a lot MORE data content, and also update the existing data. I know when I migrate my other D7 sites, importing content is going to be important.

I have made mistakes with trial-and-error feeds. Losing data out of fields because a column was forgotten, and HTML changing.  I'm especially struggling to export all existing fields of a content type to work from, in terms of updating.