Backing up and restoring the node user database records

These instructions describe how to back up and restore your Node API user data up to the time of the backup operation.

About this task

Back up the Node API user data from the Redis database:
```
> asnodeadmin -b C:\filepath\database.backup
```
Important: When backing up the Redis database, all user data up to that point in time is saved to the backup file. Restoring the database (see Step 2) does not delete users added after this snapshot was taken. Thus, if you added any users after backing up the database, they still exist in the system and are not affected by the restore operation.
Restore the Node API user data to the Redis database:
```
> asnodeadmin -r C:\filepath\database.backup
```
Note: If you do not want to keep users that were added since the last backup operation, delete them after performing the restore with the following command:
```
> asnodeadmin -du username
```
Restart the Aspera Node Service:

Open Search from the taskbar and type Services, click IBM Aspera NodeD, and click Restart.