So I took an initial dump of our existing forum a few weeks ago. I've been working with that locally, to get everything set up and ready, before I plan to turn the existing forum offline, dump and run a final conversion. I'm simply looking to minimise downtime and if there was a way to add any new users, threads, posts etc since that initial dump, that would speed up the process massively and reduce the time spent offline.
I wasn't sure it was something that warranted opening a ticket, but I will do that now.