# Database stuck recreating?
**URL:** https://forum.duplicati.com/t/database-stuck-recreating/6589
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [March 17, 2019, 10:18pm UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/database-stuck-recreating/6589 "2019-03-17T22:18:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@NTWarrior](https://forum.duplicati.com/u/NTWarrior)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2019, 10:18pm UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/database-stuck-recreating/6589/1 "2019-03-17T22:18:22Z")
My PC crashed while I was running a backup to a G Suite Google Drive, and I was unable to repair the database so I started recreating it. After a few days the progress bar got to ~75% complete but then got stuck and according to the log it looked like it was running a big operation on the database (I can’t remember what exactly and the logs no longer load) and had stopped downloading dblock files. Since then, there has been disk activity of 150-200kB/s each way reading and writing to one of the etilqs files in the temp folder, but I think it has been at this for around two weeks now.
Is this normal, or should I try cancelling the recreate, pasting in the last backup .sqlite file and running a repair
The database before the crash was ~50GB, and I kept the default block sizes, etc. I’m on Windows 10 and [v2.0.4.15-2.0.4.15\_canary\_2019-02-06](https://github.com/duplicati/duplicati/releases/tag/v2.0.4.15-2.0.4.15_canary_2019-02-06), I can’t remember if I was when the crash first appeared or I tried upgrading when the database wouldn’t repair.
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### Author:  [@SamSirry](https://forum.duplicati.com/u/SamSirry)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2019, 9:00am UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/database-stuck-recreating/6589/2 "2019-03-18T09:00:07Z")
There are many posts in this forum that talk about this issue. And the answer is Yes, this is normal. Unfortunately, database recreation can take a long long time, especially with sizes as big as this (50GB!).
If you are into 2 weeks, perhaps you should let it go on as I feel like much of the wait is done already.
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### Author:  [@NTWarrior](https://forum.duplicati.com/u/NTWarrior)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2019, 4:02pm UTC](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/database-stuck-recreating/6589/3 "2019-03-18T16:02:19Z")
Bobw was taking 10 days to restore a database for a much smaller backup set than mine before quitting, not a good sign…
> [@Recreating database logic/understanding/issue/slow](https://forum.duplicati.com/t/recreating-database-logic-understanding-issue-slow/6496/8):
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> I have also experienced problems with Recreate Database. I was using Duplicati to backup to a USB connected WD 4 Tb drive. After several hours the computer locked up forcing me to do a hard reboot. When I restarted the backup, Duplicati warned me about problems so I did a delete and repair database. Duplicati ran for 10 days recreating the database and did not look close to finishing so I aborted it. The backup source is 357 Gb. I can do a total backup from start in less than 3 days. Recrea…
I think I’ll try using the previous database