# Blew away my sqltags - Can I do a partial restore?

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/blew-away-my-sqltags-can-i-do-a-partial-restore/2134>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [August 19, 2010, 3:25pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/blew-away-my-sqltags-can-i-do-a-partial-restore/2134 "2010-08-19T15:25:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dravik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@Dravik](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Dravik)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 3:25pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/blew-away-my-sqltags-can-i-do-a-partial-restore/2134/1 "2010-08-19T15:25:15Z")

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So… I just blew away my SQL tags by accident. Anyway I can do a partial restore from backup?

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**Author:** ![Travis.Cox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Travis.Cox](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Travis.Cox)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 3:28pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/blew-away-my-sqltags-can-i-do-a-partial-restore/2134/2 "2010-08-19T15:28:20Z")

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No, you can restore the backup on another machine and just export / import your tags through CSV.

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**Author:** ![Dravik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@Dravik](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Dravik)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 3:30pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/blew-away-my-sqltags-can-i-do-a-partial-restore/2134/3 "2010-08-19T15:30:43Z")

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Easy enough, thanks for the reply.

Now, Before I go pull the tapes to grab last weeks backup, Can I use the autodb backup I see Ignition saved for this?

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**Author:** ![Travis.Cox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Travis.Cox](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Travis.Cox)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 3:33pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/blew-away-my-sqltags-can-i-do-a-partial-restore/2134/4 "2010-08-19T15:33:18Z")

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Yes. You just have to unzip one of the auto-backups and place it in a db folder in another installation. Make sure Ignition is stopped, unzip it and then start Ignition up and your project should be there.

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**Author:** ![Dravik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@Dravik](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Dravik)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2010, 4:01pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/blew-away-my-sqltags-can-i-do-a-partial-restore/2134/5 "2010-08-19T16:01:37Z")

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Thanks for the help!  
That was almost trivial to recover from. Didn’t even have to shut the system down.