Does a Dataminer backup helps to restore the users as well?

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Hello everyone,

In the upcoming weeks, we are going to move an old system (12 years of service) to a new hardware to be able to use the new database architecture.

To avoid having to recreate all elements, surveyor, templates, and correlations from scratch, we are thinking to take a configuration backup to bring all of those to the new system.

Now, does that configuration backup helps with the user and groups creation as well? I saw an “All user settings”, but it is not clear if it is only for the user preferences or the local users will be created as well.

I checked the Documentation and this page: Backing up a DataMiner Agent | DataMiner Docs points to a Dojo video that explains how to create a backup, but it is not clear on the user part: Backup - Configuring backups - DataMiner Dojo

Any help is appreciated!

Arturo Lizcano [SLC] [DevOps Advocate] Selected answer as best 16th June 2023

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Hi Arturo,

As Arunkrishna pointed out, the user and group configuration and settings within DataMiner will be included in the backup. However, DataMiner will not recreate any local users and groups in Windows - it wouldn't know their passwords anyway. So if you are using local users, you are responsible for exporting them from the old machine and importing them on the new machine.

This is not applicable if you are using any external directory system for user and group management, like Active Directory / AzureAD / LDAP / CROWD.

Arturo Lizcano [SLC] [DevOps Advocate] Posted new comment 16th June 2023
Arturo Lizcano [SLC] [DevOps Advocate] commented

Hi Bert, This is what I was interested in!
So, we will need to define a way to move those users to the new system.

Thanks a lot!
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Hi Arturo,

If your backup contains the security.xml file and the folder C: --> Skyline DataMiner --> Users, then the user and group configuration should be present when you restore the backup.

Arturo Lizcano [SLC] [DevOps Advocate] Edited comment 16th June 2023
Arunkrishna Shreeder [SLC] [DevOps Enabler] commented

I took a configuration backup and the above files/folders were present, so you should be good to go. In any case, you can always perform a quick test on your local agent to verify this 🙂
Arturo Lizcano [SLC] [DevOps Advocate] commented

Hi! Thanks for the detailed answer. I did a test and yes, indeed the files are copied, and they appear in the new system. However, the local users need to be manually created (or with a PowerShell script).