# Docker scheduled gateway backups

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/docker-scheduled-gateway-backups/78211>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81, docker\
**Created:** [August 22, 2023, 10:25am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/docker-scheduled-gateway-backups/78211 "2023-08-22T10:25:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Vidar\_Kro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/ba9def/32.png) [@Vidar\_Kro](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Vidar_Kro)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2023, 6:23am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/docker-scheduled-gateway-backups/78211/3 "2023-08-23T06:23:54Z")

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That makes sense I was just a bit confused from a previous post by K. Collins on the forum where he describes this method. So the propper way of handeling this is just to backup the whole volume instead? [https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/lost-all-my-work-in-a-docker-instance/44314/14?u=vidar\_kro](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/lost-all-my-work-in-a-docker-instance/44314/14)

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