# Ignition backup **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Tags:** ignition81\ **Created:** [October 30, 2025, 2:01pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-backup/111824 "2025-10-30T14:01:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![yinyuan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ac91a4/32.png) [@yinyuan](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/yinyuan)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2025, 2:01pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-backup/111824/1 "2025-10-30T14:01:55Z")
can I Check the ignition version from the backup file?and how? ---
**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:** [October 30, 2025, 2:15pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-backup/111824/2 "2025-10-30T14:15:01Z")
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.) ---
**Author:** ![danielps1818](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ecae2f/32.png) [@danielps1818](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/danielps1818)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2025, 3:18pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-backup/111824/3 "2025-10-30T15:18:18Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![jlandwerlen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bc8723/32.png) [@jlandwerlen](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jlandwerlen)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2025, 3:52pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-backup/111824/4 "2025-10-30T15:52:08Z")
Try Kindling. > [@Kindling - a collection of tools to help with Ignition](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/kindling-a-collection-of-tools-to-help-with-ignition/54689): > > 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… ---
**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2025, 3:54pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-backup/111824/5 "2025-10-30T15:54:35Z")
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: ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/c/8/c840997d2d95ceb29dc369f9ddbca57cf85a035e.png) ---
**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:** [October 30, 2025, 4:04pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-backup/111824/6 "2025-10-30T16:04:53Z")
I would hope anyone looking inside a gateway backup for information about the backup would intuitively consider `backupinfo.xml` as a likely source... ---
**Author:** ![yinyuan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/ac91a4/32.png) [@yinyuan](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/yinyuan)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2025, 7:18pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-backup/111824/7 "2025-10-30T19:18:23Z")
Got it, thanks for your reply