# AWX 19 Backup and Restore

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-19-backup-and-restore/35762>\
**Category:** AWX Project\
**Tags:** awx\
**Created:** [September 21, 2021, 1:57pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-19-backup-and-restore/35762 "2021-09-21T13:57:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Tony1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@Tony1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Tony1)\
**Post date:** [September 21, 2021, 1:57pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-19-backup-and-restore/35762/1 "2021-09-21T13:57:59Z")

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Been having a look around and I cant see a documented way to backup and restore AWX v19.

Has anyone done this and if so, how?

Cheers

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**Author:** ![Tony1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@Tony1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Tony1)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2021, 9:15am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-19-backup-and-restore/35762/2 "2021-09-22T09:15:24Z")

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So used the tower-cli utility but I am getting the below error:

[root@]# tower-cli receive --all \> backup.json  
Error: The requested object could not be found.

if I run list users this returns fine.

Any ideas anyone?

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**Author:** ![Tony1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@Tony1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Tony1)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2021, 9:42am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-19-backup-and-restore/35762/3 "2021-09-22T09:42:55Z")

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I can see the issue I think, it stops on inventory\_scripts which doesn’t exist in my version of AWX

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**Author:** ![Tony1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/858c86/32.png) [@Tony1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Tony1)\
**Post date:** [September 22, 2021, 10:02am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-19-backup-and-restore/35762/4 "2021-09-22T10:02:41Z")

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Looks like the older awx-cli/tower-cli doesn’t like AWX v19.

I got it working with the newer one with the below:

awx --conf.host [https://awx.domain.com](https://awx.domain.com/) --conf.username admin --conf.password passwordhere export \> awx.json

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**Author:** ![The\_Vandyy\_Vines](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@The\_Vandyy\_Vines](https://forum.ansible.com/u/The_Vandyy_Vines)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2021, 10:54am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/awx-19-backup-and-restore/35762/5 "2021-10-05T10:54:18Z")

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Hello,

I am still struggling with the backup and Restoration of AWX 19.x.x .  
Please can you help with any complete solution … ( any link or anippetor log can help)

Thanks in advance.