# Struggling to Backfill Airtable Database with Hundreds of Meeting Transcripts

**URL:** <https://community.n8n.io/t/struggling-to-backfill-airtable-database-with-hundreds-of-meeting-transcripts/138067>\
**Category:** Questions\
**Tags:** database-migration, database\
**Created:** [June 24, 2025, 9:55pm UTC](https://community.n8n.io/t/struggling-to-backfill-airtable-database-with-hundreds-of-meeting-transcripts/138067 "2025-06-24T21:55:24Z")\
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**Author:** ![Zachary\_Wolpov](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/n8n/user_avatar/community.n8n.io/zachary_wolpov/32/77956_2.png) [@Zachary\_Wolpov](https://community.n8n.io/u/Zachary_Wolpov)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2025, 9:55pm UTC](https://community.n8n.io/t/struggling-to-backfill-airtable-database-with-hundreds-of-meeting-transcripts/138067/1 "2025-06-24T21:55:24Z")

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## Describe the problem/error/question

I’m trying to use n8n to backfill my Airtable database with hundreds of transcripts from our company’s meetings. The current workflow steps I’m using are:

1. Retrieve all new meeting transcripts. For backfilling the database in this case, I’m retrieving all of them.
2. For each meeting transcript, I have a simple code node that extracts the most important attributes and returns this as flattened json data (with the transcript).
3. After extracting attributes, upsert to Airtable.

It’s not a complicated workflow, but I’m wondering if I’m getting issues because of many Airtable requests I’m making (or simply the large amount of data I’m loading in).

## What is the error message (if any)?

The workflow runs correctly, but after upserting some of the meeting transcripts to Airtable, the workflow just loses connection and seems to crash.

## Please share your workflow

I unfortunately can’t share the workflow as it has some proprietary data from my company that is private.

Are there any template workflows I can find for this type of backfilling process? I’m struggling to find any, and this may help me.

## Information on your n8n setup

- **n8n version:** 1.91.3
- **Database** : Airtable
- **n8n EXECUTIONS\_PROCESS setting (default: own, main):** N/A
- **Running n8n via:** cloud
- **Operating system:** MacOS (latest)

Thank you!

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**Author:** ![system](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/n8n/user_avatar/community.n8n.io/system/32/195824_2.png) [@system](https://community.n8n.io/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2025, 9:55pm UTC](https://community.n8n.io/t/struggling-to-backfill-airtable-database-with-hundreds-of-meeting-transcripts/138067/2 "2025-09-22T21:55:52Z")

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Closed on September 22, 2025, 9:55pm UTC

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