import from backup sql

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  boyarick · Member · Mar 12, 2008 at 12:09 am

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  i have an old wordpress blog backup – in a sql file. due to the host no longer working, i cannot export into the format that import plugin would use. can anyone tell me how i can import my blog from the backed up sql file?
  thanks.

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  ellaella · Member · Mar 12, 2008 at 12:25 am

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  To answer both your posted questions, you’re in the wrong place. This is wordpress.com and we don’t use plugins. You need to ask at wordpress.org/support.

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  tellyworth · Staff · Mar 12, 2008 at 1:40 am

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  You need to import the SQL to a fresh WordPress install, then export it as XML.