# How long to "Validating backup file" when creating a new site?

**URL:** <https://community.kinsta.com/t/how-long-to-validating-backup-file-when-creating-a-new-site/2759>\
**Category:** Application Support\
**Created:** [November 20, 2023, 6:07pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/how-long-to-validating-backup-file-when-creating-a-new-site/2759 "2023-11-20T18:07:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Daniel\_Martin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.kinsta.com/daniel_martin/32/2704_2.png) [@Daniel\_Martin](https://community.kinsta.com/u/Daniel_Martin)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 6:07pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/how-long-to-validating-backup-file-when-creating-a-new-site/2759/1 "2023-11-20T18:07:58Z")

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When creating a new site from a backup file it spins on the “Validating backup file” for hours and is still at 0%. Our backup file is ~62GB so I expect it to take a while. There have been no errors as of yet.

I was just curious if anyone successfully used this feature instead of Sync. If so, did it not show any % until after the Validation step?

I wanted to make sure our backup file can be used without internet before making changes to our site. Thank you

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**Author:** ![Daniel\_Martin](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.kinsta.com/daniel_martin/32/2704_2.png) [@Daniel\_Martin](https://community.kinsta.com/u/Daniel_Martin)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2023, 9:10pm UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/how-long-to-validating-backup-file-when-creating-a-new-site/2759/2 "2023-11-20T21:10:55Z")

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It ended up failing and still was at 0%, so I have my answer now. It took 3-4 hours, I wasn’t tracking it fully. The error was [errors.WP\_PARSE\_CONFIG DK0081 when trying to manually import a site downloaded from My Kinsta - DevKinsta / Application Support - Kinsta Community](https://community.kinsta.com/t/errors-wp-parse-config-dk0081-when-trying-to-manually-import-a-site-downloaded-from-my-kinsta/1828/3)  
My next step will be to try to [Manually Import a Backup in DevKinsta - Kinsta®](https://kinsta.com/knowledgebase/devkinsta/import-an-external-backup/)

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/kinsta/original/2X/8/80f8c4e56fecc02327a0964e6bf63a716483529f.png) [@system](https://community.kinsta.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [November 23, 2023, 9:10am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/how-long-to-validating-backup-file-when-creating-a-new-site/2759/3 "2023-11-23T09:10:59Z")

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