# Keycloak restarts continuously after DB backup restore

**URL:** <https://forum.keycloak.org/t/keycloak-restarts-continuously-after-db-backup-restore/10454>\
**Category:** Getting advice\
**Created:** [August 10, 2021, 4:44am UTC](https://forum.keycloak.org/t/keycloak-restarts-continuously-after-db-backup-restore/10454 "2021-08-10T04:44:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![keycloaknewbie](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/forum.keycloak.org/keycloaknewbie/32/3688_2.png) [@keycloaknewbie](https://forum.keycloak.org/u/keycloaknewbie)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2021, 4:44am UTC](https://forum.keycloak.org/t/keycloak-restarts-continuously-after-db-backup-restore/10454/1 "2021-08-10T04:44:29Z")

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i am using a postgres sql as database for my keycloak (version 14.0.0) as distroless docker image. After i have restored a SQL dump from my keycloak, it’s continuosly restarting with the following error message:

```auto
User with username 'su_0317912' already added to '/opt/jboss/keycloak/standalone/configuration/keycloak-add-user.json'

```

I have no idea why this message appears, because this user `'su_0317912'` doesn’t exists in my database. There is another `su` -user created by Keycloak before the backup, so why is Keycloak even trying to create one ?

Since the keycloak container is restarting the whole time, i can’t connect to the bash after it’s in the restarting loop. Even when keycloak ist still running, there is no file /opt/jboss/keycloak/standalone/configuration/keycloak-add-user.json so this error message is very confusing.

Any help and tips would be very nice.

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**Author:** ![keycloaknewbie](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/forum.keycloak.org/keycloaknewbie/32/3688_2.png) [@keycloaknewbie](https://forum.keycloak.org/u/keycloaknewbie)\
**Post date:** [August 10, 2021, 11:29am UTC](https://forum.keycloak.org/t/keycloak-restarts-continuously-after-db-backup-restore/10454/2 "2021-08-10T11:29:15Z")

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I got it solved. In my case there was the KEYCLOAK\_ADMIN su\_0317912 set in environment variables. But after restore there was another su allready in DB. But the error message is somehow confusing, because not the su\_0317912 is already added, just another user.

Is only one su\_\* user allowed in the database ?