# Export/Import users

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/export-import-users/23680>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [March 28, 2019, 10:41am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/export-import-users/23680 "2019-03-28T10:41:25Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mau89](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/mau89/32/20680_2.png) [@Mau89](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Mau89)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2019, 10:41am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/export-import-users/23680/1 "2019-03-28T10:41:25Z")

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Hi,  
I should want export and import from an internal users source on a gateway to another gateway.  
Is it possible? How I can do this?

Thanks

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**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2019, 3:19pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/export-import-users/23680/2 "2019-03-28T15:19:39Z")

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There's no trivial way to do this - other than restore a .gwbk, then delete the settings/projects/etc you don't need. That's by far the best option.

If you do want to go down the route of doing it manually, follow essentially the procedure I outlined here, except your destination will be another gateway's config.idb.:

> [@Users source migration](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/users-source-migration/19166/2):
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> You can copy the config.idb file out of the installation directory, then open it with [sqlite](https://www.sqlite.org/download.html); then copy the values out of the INTERNAL\* tables and put them into the appropriate tables in your database user source: [image]

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**Author:** ![Mau89](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/mau89/32/20680_2.png) [@Mau89](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Mau89)\
**Post date:** [April 10, 2019, 2:23pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/export-import-users/23680/3 "2019-04-10T14:23:43Z")

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Thanks,  
I can connect to config.idb and execute insert directly?