[support] Multi-Site question

[Daniel Carrera]

Hello,

I am interested in the multi-site feature but I have questions.

I have a Drupal site for students to upload work. The problem is that 
all schools use the same site and now teachers want to be able to reset 
student passwords which requires admin rights.

If I had a multi-site, each school could have its own site and the 
teachers could be admins. That sounds good, but I have some concerns:

1) MIGRATION:

How can I transfer user accounts to the new sites?
How can I transfer existing content?

Moving users and accounts to their respective sites seems quite 
difficult. I don't know what I can do there.


2) DRAWBACKS:

Are there any drawbacks I should know about?

I imagine that I would lose the ability to do an over-all search among 
all the sites. I can live with that. Maintenance would be more difficult 
because I'd have to create a new site every time we get a new school, 
but that seems manageable.

Is there anything I've missed?


I'm totally new at the multi-site idea, so I'm not even sure what 
questions to ask. If you have any comments or advice for me I would very 
much like to hear it.

Thanks,
Daniel.