Ignition backup

[yinyuan]

can I Check the ignition version from the backup file?and how?

[pturmel]

Gateway backups are zip files. If your OS isn't smart enough to notice this and automatically open it with a Zip utility, change the file extension to .zip. (Notably, Windows is too stupid to recognize the file type.)

[danielps1818]

I think he is asking if inside the .zip file is there anywhere where the ignition version of that project is saved.

I have no idea

[jlandwerlen]

Try Kindling.

Kindling - a collection of tools to help with Ignition

Happy new year, and all that! I wanted to debut for the community something I've been working on for a little while, and hopefully it's useful to somebody out there. The full story: Long ago I worked as a support rep at IA. While there, I made some tools for internal use; Vision windows attached to an internal gateway that knew how to parse our log IDB files and thread dump files and display them in a more useful way. Recently, I had some downtime, and wanted to take on a new project, so I recr…

[paul-griffith]

As Phil said - .gwbks are just zips, so you can open them in any archive viewing tool and look at the backupinfo.xml file it contains.

Kindling offers a graphical way to do this, and includes some other Ignition specific niceties (such as browsing inner IDB files) but is by no means required for the basic operation:

[pturmel]

I would hope anyone looking inside a gateway backup for information about the backup would intuitively consider backupinfo.xml as a likely source...

[yinyuan]

Got it, thanks for your reply