Archiving and restoring user information

A user archive contains information about all the users and groups for the database. If your database is configured to use the Rational® Directory Server, you cannot use Rational DOORS® to archive users and groups.

About this task

A user archive contains information about all the users and groups for the database.

When you restore a user archive, you replace all the current user information with the information in the archive. If you restore a user list that has been archived from a different database, your Administrator password is overwritten with the Administrator password from the archive.

To create a user archive, you must be a project manager, a database manager, or a custom user who has the power to archive data.

To restore a user archive, you must be the administrator user.

Procedure

  1. In the database explorer, click Tools > Manage Users.
  2. Click the Archives tab, and select a location to save the user archive, or browse to the user archive that you want to restore.
Related concepts:
User account types and the administrator user in Rational DOORS
Planning user accounts and groups
Data backups and archives
Related tasks:
Viewing, creating, editing, and deleting users
Viewing, creating, editing, and deleting groups
Enabling and disabling users and groups
Enabling archives on the Rational DOORS database server
Archiving projects or modules
Restoring projects or modules

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