Title: How to avoid bbpress forums overwrite?
Last modified: February 2, 2017

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# How to avoid bbpress forums overwrite?

 *  Resolved [beppemanno](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beppemanno/)
 * (@beppemanno)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-avoid-bbpress-forums-overwrite/)
 * Hi guys,
    I’m using this beautiful plugin in order to duplicate my live site 
   to my staging area (MAMP) and vice versa. I’m using also the BBPress plugin for
   forums. How can I avoid the bbpress forums overwrite when I publish my new features
   and pages from my staging area to the live site? Is there a plugin in order to
   backup only the forums or something like this? Thank you Beppe

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 *  [Cory Lamle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/corylamleorg/)
 * (@corylamleorg)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-avoid-bbpress-forums-overwrite/#post-8730469)
 * Hey [@beppemanno](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beppemanno/),
 * Unfortunately right now Duplicator only works with an empty database. If it didn’t
   we would probably get overwhelmed with merge issues. It maybe something we consider
   in the pro-version in the future.
 * If you want to use Duplicator to only backup the forum data you can do that by
   filtering out all of your non-bbforum tables when you build the package by filtering
   the tables…
 * Hope that helps~

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 * Last reply from: [Cory Lamle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/corylamleorg/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/how-to-avoid-bbpress-forums-overwrite/#post-8730469)
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