Restore from WordPress Self Hosted Backup

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  christinefaucherkelley0991 · Member · Mar 28, 2019 at 4:05 pm

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  I’ve got an UpDraft backup of my old self-hosted site and I’d like to set it up again on WordPress.com. I didn’t know there was an option to export a few years ago when I took down my old site so I don’t think I have an .xml file to import. Any ideas how I can move forward using my old UpDraft backup?

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  gemmacevans · Member · Mar 29, 2019 at 10:46 am

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  Hi christinefaucherkelley0991,

  I didn’t know there was an option to export a few years ago when I took down my old site so I don’t think I have an .xml file to import.

  An .xml file will be needed to import content from a WordPress.org site, to WordPress.com:

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  If you don’t have one, you could try the following:

  1. Create a temporary WordPress.org site
  2. Import the UpDraft file into that site
  3. Export from Tools > Export
  4. Then import the .xml file(s) to WordPress.com

  That’s the best workaround I can think of but come back to me if you have any questions.