data

Yesterday Ethan, Chris and I found ourselves needing to move some data into Drupal — we're building an existing client a new site and they need some blog posts moved over from their old one. It sure sounds simple. But as anyone who's actually done data migration from one blogging platform to another (or just from one version to another) can attest, it's rarely that easy. There are a few options, though, which I present here in increasing order of their likelihood to unexpectedly spiral into a huge, awful mess: