Magento Product Import - Beyond CSV/XLS

Question

I want to move an entire catalog from one magento store to another store on another server. I realize I can import via csv, but I also want to maintain product relationships, grouped product relationship, config product relationships and images. The only way I can think to do this is to write my own script using the Magento API. Is there another more straight forward way of doing this?

Answer 1

I just found this extension, we'll see if it does the job:

http://www.commerceextensions.com/magento-product-import-export.html

Answer 2

Export the DB directly and you would retain all this information. This would also be significantly faster for large sets of objects.

If that feels too dirty, your API solution will contain all the data, but will take longer to import/export.