# Triggering a backup via admin API causes the api\_key to become only valid for system user

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/triggering-a-backup-via-admin-api-causes-the-api-key-to-become-only-valid-for-system-user/77858>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [January 12, 2018, 5:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/triggering-a-backup-via-admin-api-causes-the-api-key-to-become-only-valid-for-system-user/77858 "2018-01-12T17:00:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)\
**Post date:** [January 14, 2018, 9:48pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/triggering-a-backup-via-admin-api-causes-the-api-key-to-become-only-valid-for-system-user/77858/2 "2018-01-14T21:48:02Z")

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Can you look at the underlying table, before and after?

```plaintext
bin/rails c
> ApiKey.all

```

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