Restoring Roles from a Backup

To restore the roles from a backup to the database you need to go through next steps.

Select the appropriate roles backup and press the “Restore Roles” button on the toolbar (you can do it also using the corresponding item of main or context menu):

In the appeared wizard you should input the address of the server, its version and database. These fields will be filled in by default with the values that were used when creating this backup:

After verifying/changing the connection settings press «Start». At the next step select the roles, which you would like to restore from the backup, and press «Next»:

On the next step you will be offered to choose the way of restoring the roles from three options:

• Remove all existing roles from the database and create selected;
• Leave all existing roles and create non existing;
• Overwrite selected roles even if they already appear in the database.

Select the third option and press «Next»:

After completion of the restore operation you will receive the report listing the executed actions:

Since the roles for users already appeared in the database, these roles were removed and the roles from the backup were created instead.

As you can see, the process of restoring the roles from a backup is very straightforward. If you would have more than two users (say, several dozen), then the process of setting up the rights for every user would require much more time than restoring the roles from a backup.