Import .sql file not working

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  johannesburgaupairs · Member · Mar 30, 2019 at 3:13 pm

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  HI I have a backup of my wordpress website that I was trying to upload/import, but I am getting error messages trying to upload it. I just did a simple backup with the previous site. Please can you help me?

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  darciemg · Staff · Mar 30, 2019 at 5:22 pm

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  Because WordPress.com is formatted differently than WordPress.org powered sites, a .sql file won’t work for importing here. That database can be taken to a new install of WordPress.org on another host. To import here, you’d want a .xml export of the content.

  Is the old site still online at all? This is the way you’d import a WordPress powered site to WordPress.com hosting. https://transferto.wordpress.com/self-hosted-wordpress-org/

  Here’s a bit about the differences- https://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/