Personal Access Token Permissions and User Roles for GitHub

Certain personal access token permissions and user roles are required to perform backups and restores for GitHub.

Operation	Context	Personal access token permissions	User roles (member of the organization)
Backup	All contexts	Full permissions at the repo scope level for private repositories Public_repo permission at the repo scope level for public repositories	User must have the Read role at the Organization level or at the Repository level
Restore	If the destination repository does not exist	Full permissions at the repo scope level for private repositories Public_repo permissions at the repo scope level for public repositories If a workflow is present in the repository, full permissions at the workflow scope level for public and private repositories	User must have the Create repository permission enabled User will be set with the Admin role for the repository created by the restore operation
Restore	If the destination repository exists	Full permissions at the repo scope level for private repositories Public_repo permissions at the repo scope level for public repositories If a workflow is present in the repository, full permissions at the workflow scope for public and private repositories	User must have the Write role at the Organization level or at the Repository level