# Unable to use DevKinsta
**URL:** https://community.kinsta.com/t/unable-to-use-devkinsta/2217
**Category:** Installation
**Created:** [April 11, 2023, 3:24am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/unable-to-use-devkinsta/2217 "2023-04-11T03:24:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@Aporia](https://community.kinsta.com/u/Aporia)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2023, 3:56am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/unable-to-use-devkinsta/2217/26 "2023-04-19T03:56:07Z")
The first method did not work.
The second method did work.
I finally have a working copy. Now I need to explore what sync offers me. It would appear that it is just going to do the same thing that failed in the beginning: download the whole site. Any reason why it wouldn’t use rsync?
Ultimately I am exploring DevKinsta to see if a client of mine can use it in order to gain more control over their site. I am comfortable with my own workflow. I will continue to checkout DevKinsta, because I am interested in the integration with Kinsta, but I would like to understand and a simpler syncing processes.
The size of my site (files: 12.2GB and database: 4.79GB) seems to make it difficult to sync. I see I can specify what files I download, but can I save that request? Is it also using rsync, so I am not downloading everything again?
Finally, aside from the issues of the size of my site, I noticed that because I use redis-cache, there is issue with object-cache.php when it is imported. I do know Kinsta have developed a process to exclude some items like that when creating staging sites. Might be nice to see this in DevKinsta.
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### Author:  [@Agus](https://community.kinsta.com/u/Agus)
#### Post date: [April 19, 2023, 6:11am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/unable-to-use-devkinsta/2217/27 "2023-04-19T06:11:25Z")
Glad to see the second method (with WP CLI) did work! 👍
As I know the site import from MyKinsta and the Sync (Push to/Pull from Kinsta) use rsync.
Yes, you can select or deselect files (or folder) that you would like to [Push to](https://kinsta.com/knowledgebase/devkinsta/push-local-site-to-kinsta-staging/) or [Pull from](https://kinsta.com/knowledgebase/devkinsta/pull-a-site-from-kinsta/) Kinsta (MyKinsta) - so only the selected files/folders would be processed. But I don’t think we can save what has been selected or deselected unfortunately. And yeah this [push/pull method uses rsync](https://kinsta.com/knowledgebase/devkinsta/error-codes/#dk0065) as well.
About the Staging site creation in MyKinsta, there’s no option to exclude some items when creating staging site ([clone an existing environment](https://kinsta.com/docs/staging-environment/#option-1--clone-an-existing-environment)). And there’s only [selective push](https://kinsta.com/docs/push-staging-live/) options (Push files only, Push Database only or Push both/all).
Cheers,
Agus
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### Author:  [@Aporia](https://community.kinsta.com/u/Aporia)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2023, 12:25am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/unable-to-use-devkinsta/2217/28 "2023-04-20T00:25:25Z")
Thank you for this information.
As a feature request, It would be helpful to be able to be able to access the rsync method, so I could manipulate.
Also, I realised a lot of my early issues stemmed from not being able to exit the setup process of DevKinsta. There was only options to retry and cancel, forcing me to re-download everything again.
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### Author:  [@Agus](https://community.kinsta.com/u/Agus)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2023, 5:09am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/unable-to-use-devkinsta/2217/29 "2023-04-20T05:09:36Z")
You’re most welcome Darcy! 🙇♂️
Regarding this:
> As a feature request, It would be helpful to be able to be able to access the rsync method, so I could manipulate.
I’m not quite understand with the request here 🙂 how exactly would you like to access that rsync method (and what would you like to manipulate there)? perhaps if you could provide more information/details on what would you like to achieve?
As for this case:
> Also, I realised a lot of my early issues stemmed from not being able to exit the setup process of DevKinsta. There was only options to retry and cancel, forcing me to re-download everything again.
If you’re experiencing the same issue (if there are only retry or cancel options) and would like to _exit_ from that process, I think you could just close and shutdown DevKinsta completely, and you can re-launch/re-open. Then you may want to delete that incomplete site creation from the Sites page (click the 3 dots option for that site in question → choose Delete).
Regards,
Agus
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### Author:  [@Aporia](https://community.kinsta.com/u/Aporia)
#### Post date: [April 20, 2023, 5:26am UTC](https://community.kinsta.com/t/unable-to-use-devkinsta/2217/30 "2023-04-20T05:26:16Z")
I guess given that you have said the syncing is an rsync process, I am curious where that is coded and whether I can someone adjust it.
I have tried to quit DevKinsta, but it has several processes that keep running, so I am forced to force quit them. After that, the process is stopped but there is no way to restart it. So in the case of some of the errors, I was not able to go and clean something up and then continue.
Anyway, in the end, I have got it working, but I do not feel like I can easily guide my client to setting up the environment. That is what I really need to do, as I want to help them look at code and make some changes.
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