Personal Access Token Permissions for GitLab

Certain personal access token permissions are required to perform backups and restores for GitLab.

Operation	Personal access token permissions
Backup	"read_api" scope is required at the project level or at the organization level. "read_repository" scope is required at the project level or at the organization level to access the repositories on private projects and for serving Git Requests over HTTPS using PAT.
Restore	"api" scope and "read_api" scope are required at the project level or at the organization level. "read_repository" and "write_repository" scope are required at the project level or at the organization level to access the repositories on private projects and for serving Git Requests over HTTPS using PAT.

Operation

Personal access token permissions

Backup

"read_api" scope is required at the project level or at the organization level.

"read_repository" scope is required at the project level or at the organization level to access the repositories on private projects and for serving Git Requests over HTTPS using PAT.

Restore

"api" scope and "read_api" scope are required at the project level or at the organization level.

"read_repository" and "write_repository" scope are required at the project level or at the organization level to access the repositories on private projects and for serving Git Requests over HTTPS using PAT.