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Database import fails during migration

Database import fails during migration with errors such as a 403 response, especially on sites over one gigabyte.

Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.

4 public reports · first reported 29 August 2023 · last reported 20 February 2025

Idea report · $9 · No contacts · All sales final

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What's going wrong

Site owners moving WordPress sites report that the database import step fails near the end of the migration.

AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.

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  • The full summary.
  • The products the 4 reports are about, and how many came each month.
  • Related problems.

No business has been found with this problem yet, so the report has no contacts. All sales are final — no refunds. Pricing.