# 2 projects in dev gateway deleted mysteriously **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Tags:** perspective\ **Created:** [August 24, 2022, 6:53am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/2-projects-in-dev-gateway-deleted-mysteriously/63382 "2022-08-24T06:53:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![nminchin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nminchin/32/6911_2.png) [@nminchin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nminchin)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2022, 6:53am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/2-projects-in-dev-gateway-deleted-mysteriously/63382/1 "2022-08-24T06:53:00Z")
8.1.18 2 of my projects in my dev environment just up and vanished, poof. Not sure what happened… The Perspective Client I was running all of a sudden just said “Project not found” or something. By disappeared, I mean they were no longer in the Projects section under the gw webpage and all of the files were missing on the server under the filesystem. LUCKILY and perhaps suspiciously, I had a colleague collect a backup literally seconds before the projects disappeared and I was able to restore it and resume from where I left off. I saw this suspicious entry in the wrapper log below. Note: the ‘global’ and ‘alarm-pipline’ projects are the ones to vanish. ```auto INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:06 | I [c.i.i.g.u.BackupRestoreDelegate] [05:15:06]: Starting restore procedure, writing upload to disk... INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | W [c.i.i.g.u.BackupRestoreDelegate] [05:15:11]: Restore failed: Failed to delete the data/projects directory. This may result in incorrect project overwrites and merges INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | com.inductiveautomation.ignition.gateway.util.BackupRestoreDelegate$ProjectBackupException: Failed to delete the data/projects directory. This may result in incorrect project overwrites and merges INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.gateway.util.BackupRestoreDelegate.backupProjectData(BackupRestoreDelegate.java:590) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.gateway.util.BackupRestoreDelegate.restore(BackupRestoreDelegate.java:229) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.gateway.web.pages.config.RestorePanel.onFormSubmit(RestorePanel.java:161) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.gateway.web.pages.config.RestorePanel$1.onSubmitInternal(RestorePanel.java:55) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.gateway.web.components.CsrfPreventingForm.onSubmit(CsrfPreventingForm.java:67) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at org.apache.wicket.markup.html.form.Form.delegateSubmit(Form.java:1310) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at org.apache.wicket.markup.html.form.Form.process(Form.java:967) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at org.apache.wicket.markup.html.form.Form.onFormSubmitted(Form.java:789) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at org.apache.wicket.markup.html.form.Form.onFormSubmitted(Form.java:701) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at jdk.internal.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor218.invoke(Unknown Source) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at java.base/java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at org.apache.wicket.RequestListenerInterface.internalInvoke(RequestListenerInterface.java:258) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at org.apache.wicket.RequestListenerInterface.invoke(RequestListenerInterface.java:216) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at org.apache.wicket.core.request.handler.ListenerInterfaceRequestHandler.invokeListener(ListenerInterfaceRequestHandler.java:243) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at org.apache.wicket.core.request.handler.ListenerInterfaceRequestHandler.respond(ListenerInterfaceRequestHandler.java:236) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at org.apache.wicket.request.cycle.RequestCycle$HandlerExecutor.respond(RequestCycle.java:890) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at org.apache.wicket.request.RequestHandlerStack.execute(RequestHandlerStack.java:64) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at org.apache.wicket.request.cycle.RequestCycle.execute(RequestCycle.java:261) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at org.apache.wicket.request.cycle.RequestCycle.processRequest(RequestCycle.java:218) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at org.apache.wicket.request.cycle.RequestCycle.processRequestAndDetach(RequestCycle.java:289) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at org.apache.wicket.protocol.http.WicketFilter.processRequestCycle(WicketFilter.java:259) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at org.apache.wicket.protocol.http.WicketFilter.processRequest(WicketFilter.java:201) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at org.apache.wicket.protocol.http.WicketFilter.doFilter(WicketFilter.java:282) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.FilterHolder.doFilter(FilterHolder.java:201) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$Chain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1601) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doHandle(ServletHandler.java:548) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:143) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at org.eclipse.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:600) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:127) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextHandle(ScopedHandler.java:235) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doHandle(SessionHandler.java:1624) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextHandle(ScopedHandler.java:233) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doHandle(ContextHandler.java:1440) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextScope(ScopedHandler.java:188) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.doScope(ServletHandler.java:501) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at org.eclipse.jetty.server.session.SessionHandler.doScope(SessionHandler.java:1594) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.nextScope(ScopedHandler.java:186) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ContextHandler.doScope(ContextHandler.java:1355) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.ScopedHandler.handle(ScopedHandler.java:141) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:127) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at com.inductiveautomation.catapult.handlers.RemoteHostNameLookupHandler.handle(RemoteHostNameLookupHandler.java:121) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:127) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at org.eclipse.jetty.rewrite.handler.RewriteHandler.handle(RewriteHandler.java:322) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerList.handle(HandlerList.java:59) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerCollection.handle(HandlerCollection.java:146) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at org.eclipse.jetty.server.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:127) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at org.eclipse.jetty.server.Server.handle(Server.java:516) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpChannel.lambda$handle$1(HttpChannel.java:487) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpChannel.dispatch(HttpChannel.java:732) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpChannel.handle(HttpChannel.java:479) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at org.eclipse.jetty.server.HttpConnection.onFillable(HttpConnection.java:277) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at org.eclipse.jetty.io.AbstractConnection$ReadCallback.succeeded(AbstractConnection.java:311) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at org.eclipse.jetty.io.FillInterest.fillable(FillInterest.java:105) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at org.eclipse.jetty.io.ChannelEndPoint$1.run(ChannelEndPoint.java:104) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.EatWhatYouKill.runTask(EatWhatYouKill.java:338) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.EatWhatYouKill.doProduce(EatWhatYouKill.java:315) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.EatWhatYouKill.tryProduce(EatWhatYouKill.java:173) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.strategy.EatWhatYouKill.run(EatWhatYouKill.java:131) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.ReservedThreadExecutor$ReservedThread.run(ReservedThreadExecutor.java:409) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool.runJob(QueuedThreadPool.java:883) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at org.eclipse.jetty.util.thread.QueuedThreadPool$Runner.run(QueuedThreadPool.java:1034) INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:45:11 | at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) ``` Then I see this ```auto INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:48:48 | I [s.ProjectRunner] [05:18:48]: Project shutdown. project-name=alarm-pipelines INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:48:48 | I [a.N.Pipeline] [05:18:48]: [name=Email,version=1660653611858] Alarm pipeline scheduled to retire. alarm-pipeline=project:alarm-pipelines:/pipeline:Email INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:48:48 | I [a.N.Pipeline] [05:18:48]: [name=SMS - Test,version=1660653611861] Alarm pipeline scheduled to retire. alarm-pipeline=project:alarm-pipelines:/pipeline:SMS - Test INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:48:48 | I [a.N.Pipeline] [05:18:48]: [name=Email,version=1660653611858] Alarm pipeline retired. INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:48:48 | I [a.N.Pipeline] [05:18:48]: [name=SMS - Test,version=1660653611861] Alarm pipeline retired. INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:48:48 | I [c.i.i.g.p.IgnitionProjectManager$ProjectScriptLifecycleFactory] [05:18:48]: Hierarchy change; shutting down lifecycle for 'TWE_Wynns' project-name=global INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:48:48 | I [c.i.i.g.p.IgnitionProjectManager$ProjectAuditLifecycleFactory] [05:18:48]: Hierarchy change; shutting down lifecycle for 'TWE_Wynns' project-name=global INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:48:48 | I [GatewayNamedQueryManager] [05:18:48]: Named Query Executor not found for project 'global' project-name=TWE_Wynns, view=Header_BPL@T[0]$0:0 INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:48:48 | I [c.i.i.g.d.n.GatewayNamedQueryManager$NamedQueryLifecycleFactory] [05:18:48]: Hierarchy change; shutting down lifecycle for 'TWE_Wynns' project-name=global INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:48:48 | I [c.i.s.ChartManager$ChartCompilerLifecycleFactory] [05:18:48]: Hierarchy change; shutting down lifecycle for 'TWE_Wynns' project-name=global INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:48:48 | I [s.ProjectRunner] [05:18:48]: Project shutdown. project-name=global INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:48:48 | I [c.i.f.FactorySQLGatewayHook$SqlBridgeProjectLifecycleFactory] [05:18:48]: Hierarchy change; shutting down lifecycle for 'TWE_Wynns' INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:48:48 | I [s.ProjectRunner] [05:18:48]: Project shutdown. project-name=TWE_Wynns INFO | jvm 1 | 2022/08/24 14:48:48 | I [c.i.p.g.c.PerspectiveProjectCacheImpl$PerspectiveProjectLifecycleFactory] [05:18:48]: Hierarchy change; shutting down lifecycle for 'TWE_Wynns' ``` followed by a bazillion of these below for different views and props ```auto Error shutting down binding "tag on props.text" project-name=TWE_Wynns, view=Shared/_Templates/Devices/Pump_01b@C$0:26, component=root/CoordinateContainer/speed_text ``` Any ideas?? ---
**Author:** ![victordcq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f6c823/32.png) [@victordcq](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/victordcq)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2022, 9:07am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/2-projects-in-dev-gateway-deleted-mysteriously/63382/2 "2022-08-24T09:07:28Z")
> [@nminchin](#): > > suspiciously yeah i think these events are going to be related ---
**Author:** ![Kevin.Herron](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/kevin.herron/32/7259_2.png) [@Kevin.Herron](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Kevin.Herron)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2022, 11:26am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/2-projects-in-dev-gateway-deleted-mysteriously/63382/3 "2022-08-24T11:26:38Z")
> [@nminchin](#): > > LUCKILY and perhaps suspiciously, I had a colleague collect a backup literally seconds before the projects disappeared and I was able to restore it and resume from where I left off. I think you had a colleague accidentally _restore_ a backup as well, which seems to have failed for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2022, 3:41pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/2-projects-in-dev-gateway-deleted-mysteriously/63382/4 "2022-08-24T15:41:27Z")
> [@nminchin](#): > > ```auto > com.inductiveautomation.ignition.gateway.util.BackupRestoreDelegate$ProjectBackupException: Failed to delete the data/projects directory. This may result in incorrect project overwrites and merges > at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.gateway.util.BackupRestoreDelegate.backupProjectData(BackupRestoreDelegate.java:590) > at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.gateway.util.BackupRestoreDelegate.restore(BackupRestoreDelegate.java:229) > at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.gateway.web.pages.config.RestorePanel.onFormSubmit(RestorePanel.java:161) > at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.gateway.web.pages.config.RestorePanel$1.onSubmitInternal(RestorePanel.java:55) > at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.gateway.web.components.CsrfPreventingForm.onSubmit(CsrfPreventingForm.java:67) > at org.apache.wicket.markup.html.form.Form.delegateSubmit(Form.java:1310) > at org.apache.wicket.markup.html.form.Form.process(Form.java:967) > at org.apache.wicket.markup.html.form.Form.onFormSubmitted(Form.java:789) > at org.apache.wicket.markup.html.form.Form.onFormSubmitted(Form.java:701) > at jdk.internal.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor218.invoke(Unknown Source) > > ``` Yeah, that stacktrace is pretty damning evidence. Someone clicked the 'restore' button. ---
**Author:** ![nminchin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nminchin/32/6911_2.png) [@nminchin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nminchin)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2022, 8:40pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/2-projects-in-dev-gateway-deleted-mysteriously/63382/5 "2022-08-24T20:40:55Z")
This is what I suspected as well, but I can’t imagine that he would have tried to restore an actual backup. What happens when you press restore without selecting a backup file first? ---
**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2022, 8:49pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/2-projects-in-dev-gateway-deleted-mysteriously/63382/6 "2022-08-24T20:49:47Z")
You get a ‘you must choose a .gwbk’ warning: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/1/2/125f6c6ebbef3c7715b914e4616f85ae67b82a62.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![nminchin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nminchin/32/6911_2.png) [@nminchin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nminchin)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2022, 8:53pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/2-projects-in-dev-gateway-deleted-mysteriously/63382/7 "2022-08-24T20:53:10Z")
I thought that was the case but didn’t want to press it myself just in case 🙂 and _in_ that case I have no idea how he did it… I can’t imagine why he would take a backup and then try to restore it… oh well, at least I didn’t lose anything!!