# Evidence of Backup and Restore Procedure for Historian – Ignition 8.3 (Pharmaceutical Environment) **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Tags:** ignition83\ **Created:** [March 4, 2026, 8:37am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/evidence-of-backup-and-restore-procedure-for-historian-ignition-8-3-pharmaceutical-environment/114308 "2026-03-04T08:37:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 8
**Author:** ![Matrix\_Engineering](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/matrix_engineering/32/19781_2.png) [@Matrix\_Engineering](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Matrix_Engineering)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2026, 5:15pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/evidence-of-backup-and-restore-procedure-for-historian-ignition-8-3-pharmaceutical-environment/114308/8 "2026-03-04T17:15:39Z")
> [@New Historian - QuestDB](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/new-historian-questdb/109144/2): > > We do have plans to offer this, but not yet at this time. It is possible to manually perform a backup of the database, but Ignition will need to be shut down for this. We do have plans for backup / restore functionality for the full database, but not at this time. Another option would be to use ZFS snapshots on Linux. The initial offering for archiving is to allow for partitions to be restored on an external QuestDB instance. However, not to sound like a broken record, having an integrated solu… @kurt.larson Have any of these points changed since July? --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/evidence-of-backup-and-restore-procedure-for-historian-ignition-8-3-pharmaceutical-environment/114308)._