# Gateway Recovery

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-recovery/83950>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81, perspective\
**Created:** [January 8, 2024, 9:46pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-recovery/83950 "2024-01-08T21:46:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Alex\_Leech](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/alex_leech/32/39391_2.png) [@Alex\_Leech](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Alex_Leech)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2024, 9:46pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-recovery/83950/1 "2024-01-08T21:46:23Z")

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Hi all,

So I the big stupid ... I'm amazing at backing up my work gateways, but somehow totally forgot to backup my home project _Yikes_ and the worst occured ☹

I've been running Maker on a raspberry pi and somethings gone pop. Thankfully I can get into the memory card, but I'm unsure what files I need to copy across to a new instance so I can restore gateway scripts/tags etc. The project dir was a piece of cake 🙂

Any pointers? _Lesson learnt!_

Thanks!  
Alex

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2024, 9:47pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-recovery/83950/2 "2024-01-08T21:47:53Z")

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I would install the same version on the new system and then copy the entire install folder.

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**Author:** ![Alex\_Leech](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/alex_leech/32/39391_2.png) [@Alex\_Leech](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Alex_Leech)\
**Post date:** [January 8, 2024, 10:19pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-recovery/83950/3 "2024-01-08T22:19:59Z")

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Ill give it a go and report back!

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**Author:** ![Alex\_Leech](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/alex_leech/32/39391_2.png) [@Alex\_Leech](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Alex_Leech)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2024, 11:00pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-recovery/83950/4 "2024-01-09T23:00:12Z")

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I've done as per the above, and _most_ things have come back!  
But I'm missing all my tags!  
Any idea where these may be stored? 🙂

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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:** [January 9, 2024, 11:02pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-recovery/83950/5 "2024-01-09T23:02:11Z")

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