# EAM Full Gateway Backups

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/eam-full-gateway-backups/57829>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [March 30, 2022, 7:11pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/eam-full-gateway-backups/57829 "2022-03-30T19:11:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![rob.raffaele](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@rob.raffaele](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/rob.raffaele)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2022, 7:11pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/eam-full-gateway-backups/57829/1 "2022-03-30T19:11:37Z")

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Does EAM have any capability to take a full backup, not just the gateway backup? I also want to backup running projects, udt’s, etc. Basically everything.

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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 30, 2022, 7:14pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/eam-full-gateway-backups/57829/2 "2022-03-30T19:14:06Z")

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A gateway backup is a full backup… are you finding something is missing?

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**Author:** ![rob.raffaele](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@rob.raffaele](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/rob.raffaele)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2022, 7:16pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/eam-full-gateway-backups/57829/3 "2022-03-30T19:16:12Z")

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It does not appear to include perspective projects, tags, etc

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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 30, 2022, 7:19pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/eam-full-gateway-backups/57829/4 "2022-03-30T19:19:03Z")

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What version of Ignition are you using?

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**Author:** ![rob.raffaele](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@rob.raffaele](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/rob.raffaele)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2022, 7:19pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/eam-full-gateway-backups/57829/5 "2022-03-30T19:19:15Z")

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8.1.11

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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 30, 2022, 7:20pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/eam-full-gateway-backups/57829/6 "2022-03-30T19:20:03Z")

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Look inside the backup file (it’s just a zip file).

“Perspective projects” are just projects, and all projects will have files under the `data/projects` directory.

Tags, UDTs, etc… are part of the internal DB (config.idb file).

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**Author:** ![witman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/d2c977/32.png) [@witman](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/witman)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2022, 7:24pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/eam-full-gateway-backups/57829/7 "2022-03-30T19:24:01Z")

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As @Kevin.Herron noted, the gateway backup should include all that stuff. At one point in the past it also included internal historian data and other data (such as SQLite DB you could add in Ignition program data folder). I’m not sure when the change was made, but I believe this is now excluded from backups.

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**Author:** ![rob.raffaele](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d9b06d/32.png) [@rob.raffaele](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/rob.raffaele)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2022, 7:25pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/eam-full-gateway-backups/57829/8 "2022-03-30T19:25:22Z")

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Unless I’m looking in the wrong place, here is a gateway backup on my EAM Server. EAM is running on Redhat Linux

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/a/3/a30e970519efaec940985655f1ec80d4000f6f63.png)

![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/a/e/aec5f032956b9bacd4e4c10aeffd4df59f237634.png)

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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 30, 2022, 7:29pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/eam-full-gateway-backups/57829/9 "2022-03-30T19:29:01Z")

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You should be looking inside the `backup.gwbk` file in that folder.