# Users migration from 7.9 to 8.0

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/users-migration-from-7-9-to-8-0/26852>\
**Category:** Ignition Early Access\
**Created:** [July 24, 2019, 8:27pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/users-migration-from-7-9-to-8-0/26852 "2019-07-24T20:27:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![c-w-t](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bbe5ce/32.png) [@c-w-t](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/c-w-t)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2019, 8:27pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/users-migration-from-7-9-to-8-0/26852/1 "2019-07-24T20:27:12Z")

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Forgive me if this is covered somewhere else, I haven’t been able to find any info on migrating users from 7.9 gateways to 8.0. Hoping that we don’t need to manually re-create each user in our new system.

Thanks.

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**Author:** ![jspecht](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/jspecht/32/6465_2.png) [@jspecht](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jspecht)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2019, 8:57pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/users-migration-from-7-9-to-8-0/26852/2 "2019-07-24T20:57:28Z")

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Hi @c-w-t -

You should have the same users in 8.0 that you had in 7.9 on upgrade. Let us know if you see otherwise.

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**Author:** ![c-w-t](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bbe5ce/32.png) [@c-w-t](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/c-w-t)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2019, 10:35am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/users-migration-from-7-9-to-8-0/26852/3 "2019-07-25T10:35:03Z")

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Thanks, however I didn’t do a gateway restore from our 7.9 backup, we imported projects and tags etc. So any way I can migrate users without doing a gateway backup?

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**Author:** ![jspecht](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/jspecht/32/6465_2.png) [@jspecht](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jspecht)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2019, 3:01pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/users-migration-from-7-9-to-8-0/26852/4 "2019-07-25T15:01:13Z")

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Hi @c-w-t -

Ah I see. I am not aware of a first-class way to import / export users at this time. You will probably need to copy tables / records from the internal database in 7.9 to the internal database in 8.0. A quick forum search leads me to this: [Export/Import users](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/export-import-users/23680). You may want to try and follow the directions linked to that thread.

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**Author:** ![c-w-t](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bbe5ce/32.png) [@c-w-t](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/c-w-t)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2019, 5:39pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/users-migration-from-7-9-to-8-0/26852/5 "2019-07-25T17:39:52Z")

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Saw that previously, assumed it was not applicable with 8.0, but maybe this is all easier if we just do a gateway restore. Thanks!