# Gateway restoration in 8.3 does not retain the edition of gateway

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-restoration-in-8-3-does-not-retain-the-edition-of-gateway/111805>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [October 30, 2025, 2:14am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-restoration-in-8-3-does-not-retain-the-edition-of-gateway/111805 "2025-10-30T02:14:03Z")\
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**Author:** ![msmith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/aca169/32.png) [@msmith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/msmith)\
**Post date:** [October 30, 2025, 2:14am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/gateway-restoration-in-8-3-does-not-retain-the-edition-of-gateway/111805/1 "2025-10-30T02:14:03Z")

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I am encountering an issue where if I restore an edge gateway backup into a standard ignition gateway, the restored gateway will become a standard gateway (and vice versa). This makes it difficult when running up backups for testing as I need to recommission my gateway to the correct edition before restoring the backup. I believe this behaviour did not occur in 8.1