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  2. PHPBB3-11793

Separate "create" and "restore" backup permissions; also separate "save on server" and "download backup"

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    • New Feature
    • Status: Closed (View Workflow)
    • Trivial
    • Resolution: Won't Fix
    • 3.0.11
    • 3.1.12-RC1
    • ACP
    • None
    • Irrelevant

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      I think that combining the administrator permissions to create backups and to restore them is problematic. I would like to give a trusted administrator the permission to create backups of the database, but I don't want that user to be able to restore backups, maybe even accidentally:
      http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-11349
      http://tracker.phpbb.com/browse/PHPBB3-10239

      It's not just a matter of trusting the administrator not to abuse privileges - there are some completely unneeded privileges which I don't want to give because their only use would be destructive in my case.

      Furthermore, there is a quite big number of users which I would trust enough to allow them to create backups of the database... as long as they can't download them. It would be nice to allow any moderator to create a server-stored backup of the database, and it might prevent data loss if the most recent backup needs to be restored.

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