# Backup/restore limitations?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/backup-restore-limitations/12747>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [March 2, 2017, 6:27pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/backup-restore-limitations/12747 "2017-03-02T18:27:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![abishur](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/abishur/32/9096_2.png) [@abishur](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/abishur)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 6:27pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/backup-restore-limitations/12747/1 "2017-03-02T18:27:56Z")

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I’m working with an older version of Ignition (7.4.4) that is running on a 64-bit linux machine. I did a gateway backup and restored it on a 32-bit windows machine. Now when I go to launch it on the windows machine I get an error message saying “Could not create the Java virtual machine”

It made me remember that I had a similar issue trying to do a gateway restore using Ignition 7.9 windows to linux. Is this just a limitation of the gateway backup restore that it can’t be taken between OS platforms?

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**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:** [March 2, 2017, 6:43pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/backup-restore-limitations/12747/2 "2017-03-02T18:43:37Z")

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Shouldn’t be any limitations like that.

It sounds like the backup you restored had the designer configured to use more memory than the machine you’re launching on can use.

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**Author:** ![abishur](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/abishur/32/9096_2.png) [@abishur](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/abishur)\
**Post date:** [March 2, 2017, 6:55pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/backup-restore-limitations/12747/3 "2017-03-02T18:55:20Z")

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![:prayer:](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/1X/e5a7e3b63facc151ea73e3b45db7bdb3d4bdc316.gif ":prayer:") That was the exact issue, thanks!