The migrate module provides a flexible framework for migrating content into Drupal from other sources (e.g., when converting a web site from another CMS to Drupal). Out-of-the-box, support for creating Drupal nodes, users, and comments is included - hooks permit migration of other types of content.
In addition to performing the creation of Drupal objects from arbitrary data, migrate helps with the methodology of data migration:
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