# Sync runs on server to a local instance

**URL:** <https://community.wandb.ai/t/sync-runs-on-server-to-a-local-instance/3829>\
**Category:** W&B Help\
**Tags:** wandb\
**Created:** [February 6, 2023, 5:08am UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/sync-runs-on-server-to-a-local-instance/3829 "2023-02-06T05:08:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![miladink](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/community.wandb.ai/miladink/32/700_2.png) [@miladink](https://community.wandb.ai/u/miladink)\
**Post date:** [February 6, 2023, 5:08am UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/sync-runs-on-server-to-a-local-instance/3829/1 "2023-02-06T05:08:33Z")

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Hi Everyone.  
I have run wandb in offline mode on a server. However, I don’t want to run `wandb.sync` on them. I have downloaded the wandb folder to my local pc. I am wondering if there is anyway to look at the logs stored in this wandb folder maybe through a local wandb instance.

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**Author:** ![mohammadbakir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a9a28c/32.png) [@mohammadbakir](https://community.wandb.ai/u/mohammadbakir)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2023, 1:00am UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/sync-runs-on-server-to-a-local-instance/3829/2 "2023-02-07T01:00:18Z")

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Hi @miladink , happy to help. You can’t currently view the contents of a wandb run file outside of a wandb project. You could still access the config/summary files from your machine. An option would be to sync the runs to your instance and view them this way. Here is an example call to sync a specific run folder,` wandb sync --project <PROJECT> --entity <ENTITY> <dir>/<run-folder, e.g. run-20220829_191828-3cvxvrbj>`. Please let me know if you have any questions

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**Author:** ![mohammadbakir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a9a28c/32.png) [@mohammadbakir](https://community.wandb.ai/u/mohammadbakir)\
**Post date:** [February 10, 2023, 7:23pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/sync-runs-on-server-to-a-local-instance/3829/3 "2023-02-10T19:23:05Z")

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Hi @miladink , since we have not heard back from you we are going to close this request. If you would like to re-open the conversation, please let us know!

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/wandb/original/1X/366b649231631dbab896843020da0056074ac79d.png) [@system](https://community.wandb.ai/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2023, 7:23pm UTC](https://community.wandb.ai/t/sync-runs-on-server-to-a-local-instance/3829/4 "2023-04-11T19:23:35Z")

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Closed on April 11, 2023, 7:23pm UTC

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