# Auto save alarm journal every month to local computer folder

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**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [March 8, 2024, 3:15am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/auto-save-alarm-journal-every-month-to-local-computer-folder/87004 "2024-03-08T03:15:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![celo\_Tu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@celo\_Tu](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/celo_Tu)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2024, 3:15am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/auto-save-alarm-journal-every-month-to-local-computer-folder/87004/1 "2024-03-08T03:15:28Z")

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How to set a schedule to auto save the alarm log  
write it on query or gateway and so on ?

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**Author:** ![franklepkowski](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/franklepkowski/32/4808_2.png) [@franklepkowski](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/franklepkowski)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2024, 4:19am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/auto-save-alarm-journal-every-month-to-local-computer-folder/87004/2 "2024-03-08T04:19:57Z")

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Hello,

Depending on what database you use, there may be internal tools such as Agent jobs for MSSQL that could handle this task. As another option you could run a gateway tag change event on month and utilize a combination of query results run against your alarm database table and scripting.

Frank