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currently i'm running a forum on vBulletin for which i have no other access rights than moderating it (the board will be maintained by a provider). For several reasons (server failures, lost threads, etc.) i want to go ahead with an own vBulletin installationon my own server. Unfortunately the provider is not willing to provide me a database dump.

I'm wondering if there is any possibility to parse the board threads automatically to convert and save them to a text file to re-import it into my new vBulletin.

Any help is strongly appreciated!

Thanks in advance

You may or maynot be able to parse them, but you surely can take a backup of your current database and then restore it after you intsall your own vbulletin forum.

May this might be of some help for you:
If you want you can convert your forums to phpbb by using some of the converting tools at http://www.phpbb.com