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title: "Importing a database dump file into a site factory site"
date: "2022-03-04T23:46:55+00:00"
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In some cases, you may have a Site Factory site that you want to import a database into that you may have from another environment, application, or a Drupal site that you have into an Acquia Cloud Site Factory site. There is not a simple drag and drop method from the Acquia Cloud UI, however you can import a database into a site from a database dump file using Drush.  
  
Here are some steps that you can follow in this case:

1.  Create the database dump file, for steps on Acquia Cloud follow these instructions: [Creating a database dump file](/node/56157).
2.  Place the file on to your server and in a location that you can point to such as `/mnt/tmp/[sitename]/`.
3.  Navigate to your docroot location (`/var/www/html/sitename.env/docroot`) and then run the subsequent Drush command against the site that you want to import the database into, making sure to note the location of the file that you created/imported in Step 2. Drush commands for running a database import can be found here: [Importing your database dump file](/node/56157).