# Import Database

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**Category:** Self-hosting\
**Created:** [March 14, 2023, 7:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/import-database/258144 "2023-03-14T19:22:15Z")\
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Team, have taken a backup of my site, extracted the contents to my local disk, and drilled down until I have gotten the dump.sql file.

Should it be possible to import this is into a local install of PostgrSQL on my workstation? It is fighting me back all the way, so I thought I would check to see if there are any gotchas I should know about.

When I say fighting back, it hangs the workstation, throws no errors, so it is frustrating.

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