# Gateway automatic backups

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-automatic-backups/4464>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [May 14, 2012, 1:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-automatic-backups/4464 "2012-05-14T13:42:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![JordanCClark](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/jordancclark/32/83362_2.png) [@JordanCClark](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/JordanCClark)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2012, 1:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-automatic-backups/4464/1 "2012-05-14T13:42:04Z")

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Hi guys,

Somewhere along the line, my automatic backup settings went away-- looks like about the same time as I upgraded to 7.2.11-- really unfortunate, as I had a project get corrupted here from a power outage-- the server has a ups on it, but but my pc doesn’t, and I just happened to be working on the project at the time. Then when I went to look for my backup… 😮

Luckily, I still had the context autobackup to fall back on, but just wanted to give you a heads up about what I had going.

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**Author:** ![jim\_lapratt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cc9497/32.png) [@jim\_lapratt](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jim_lapratt)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2012, 2:14pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-automatic-backups/4464/2 "2012-05-14T14:14:28Z")

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Wow, thanks for the heads up. Just went and checked mine and they have not run since the update either.

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**Author:** ![diat150](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a587f6/32.png) [@diat150](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/diat150)\
**Post date:** [May 14, 2012, 5:37pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-automatic-backups/4464/3 "2012-05-14T17:37:23Z")

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I have  
7.2.11-beta1 (b209)

and mine are still running.

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**Author:** ![jim\_lapratt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cc9497/32.png) [@jim\_lapratt](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jim_lapratt)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 3:15pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-automatic-backups/4464/4 "2012-05-15T15:15:40Z")

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Do we have a fix for this?

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**Author:** ![jim\_lapratt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cc9497/32.png) [@jim\_lapratt](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jim_lapratt)\
**Post date:** [May 15, 2012, 3:27pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-automatic-backups/4464/5 "2012-05-15T15:27:32Z")

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Looks like a permission issue.

`java.io.FileNotFoundException: /usr/local/bin/ignition/backups/Ignition-backup-20120515-1124.gwbk (Permission denied)
	at java.io.FileOutputStream.open(Native Method)
	at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:179)
	at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:131)
	at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.gateway.ScheduledBackupManager.createBackup(ScheduledBackupManager.java:139)
	at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.gateway.ScheduledBackupManager.run(ScheduledBackupManager.java:115)
	at com.inductiveautomation.ignition.common.execution.impl.BasicExecutionEngine$TrackedTask.run(BasicExecutionEngine.java:573)
	at it.sauronsoftware.cron4j.RunnableTask.execute(Unknown Source)
	at it.sauronsoftware.cron4j.TaskExecutor$Runner.run(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)`

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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:** [May 15, 2012, 4:59pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-automatic-backups/4464/6 "2012-05-15T16:59:53Z")

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Make sure that folder has read/write access for the system account Ignition is running under.

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**Author:** ![JordanCClark](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/jordancclark/32/83362_2.png) [@JordanCClark](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/JordanCClark)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2012, 11:50am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-automatic-backups/4464/7 "2012-05-16T11:50:31Z")

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Maybe I should iterate a bit further. My scheduled backups weren’t even enabled. Everything went okay after re-enabling (and still is for that matter). I just thought it was extra-odd.

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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:** [May 16, 2012, 3:34pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-automatic-backups/4464/8 "2012-05-16T15:34:02Z")

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I put in a ticket to get this fixed.