# Export/import Alarm Notification Profiles & Users/Roles?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/export-import-alarm-notification-profiles-users-roles/10580>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [October 5, 2015, 9:49pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/export-import-alarm-notification-profiles-users-roles/10580 "2015-10-05T21:49:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bob](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/bob/32/16899_2.png) [@Bob](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Bob)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2015, 9:49pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/export-import-alarm-notification-profiles-users-roles/10580/1 "2015-10-05T21:49:06Z")

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Is there a way to export/import Alarm Notification Profiles and Users/Roles from one Gateway for use in another Gateway?

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**Author:** ![greg.simpson](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/greg.simpson/32/3135_2.png) [@greg.simpson](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/greg.simpson)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2015, 5:00pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/export-import-alarm-notification-profiles-users-roles/10580/2 "2015-10-06T17:00:17Z")

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Unfortunately no, the only way to do this is with a gateway backup.

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**Author:** ![caruthersk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bc79bd/32.png) [@caruthersk](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/caruthersk)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2019, 2:45pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/export-import-alarm-notification-profiles-users-roles/10580/3 "2019-04-18T14:45:43Z")

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Has there been any activity on this? I find myself in a situation where I need to export the hundreds of users and roles and import them _en masse_ to another Gateway.

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2019, 4:01pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/export-import-alarm-notification-profiles-users-roles/10580/4 "2019-04-18T16:01:29Z")

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If you are brave, you can use a SQLite DB browser to extract the relevant data from config.idb and inject it into the new system. Make sure you handle the table containing sequence numbers. Utterly unsupported, of course.

( Make good backups first! )