# Backup Vault Credentials

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/backup-vault-credentials/34170>\
**Category:** AWX Project\
**Tags:** awx\
**Created:** [November 9, 2020, 1:42pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/backup-vault-credentials/34170 "2020-11-09T13:42:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![David\_McWilliams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@David\_McWilliams](https://forum.ansible.com/u/David_McWilliams)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2020, 1:42pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/backup-vault-credentials/34170/1 "2020-11-09T13:42:45Z")

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Hi all,

I’m brand new to the group and also new to AWX as a whole. We have been looking at various ways of backing up & restoring/ duplicating our environment and I’m struggling to find how to do this with credentials stored in a vault. Has anyone else looked at this or have any pointers, any help would be gratefully appreciated.

David

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**Author:** ![Wei-Yen\_Tan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ansible/user_avatar/forum.ansible.com/wei-yen_tan/32/4111_2.png) [@Wei-Yen\_Tan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Wei-Yen_Tan)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2020, 5:44pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/backup-vault-credentials/34170/2 "2020-11-09T17:44:44Z")

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Yes. You can’t back it up. In order to get around this I actually use a collection redhat-cop tower\_configuration to define what My infrastructure looks like.

[https://github.com/redhat-cop/tower\_configuration](https://github.com/redhat-cop/tower_configuration)

As in three examples I use a data structure to define what my tower configuration looks like and then ansible performs the task against the host. This includes every configuration in awx. Hth