# Leave staging for a long development time

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/leave-staging-for-a-long-development-time/6332>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [April 26, 2013, 9:29pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/leave-staging-for-a-long-development-time/6332 "2013-04-26T21:29:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![jdana](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c89c15/32.png) [@jdana](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jdana)\
**Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 9:29pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/leave-staging-for-a-long-development-time/6332/1 "2013-04-26T21:29:36Z")

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Are there any drawbacks to making changes to a gateway in a redundant system and leaving those changes for 1-2 weeks before publishing them.

This is in reference to a redundant system with many clients that are all operating during this time window. Clients will start and shut down and there could potentially be failures of the primary and/or backup gateways. So I guess my question is how bullet-proof is the staging project to any and all failures and is there any risk of losing work?

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**Author:** ![adamaustin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f8ce5/32.png) [@adamaustin](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/adamaustin)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2013, 8:43pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/leave-staging-for-a-long-development-time/6332/2 "2013-04-30T20:43:54Z")

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We are using a [sprint cycle](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XU0llRltyFM) where tasks are staged for up to two weeks (sometimes three) before it is published for the end-users. Ignition is very solid so there are very few times when the master server goes down and the redundant server picks up (even then, it is so rare, I cannot think of the last time it happened). We have never lost any staging work done: the redundant server is updated almost instantly.

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**Author:** ![Colby.Clegg](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/colby.clegg/32/3282_2.png) [@Colby.Clegg](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Colby.Clegg)\
**Post date:** [April 30, 2013, 9:21pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/leave-staging-for-a-long-development-time/6332/3 "2013-04-30T21:21:39Z")

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Hi,

Technically, there isn’t really any difference in regards to how resources are treated between staging & published in redundancy. The changes get synchronized as soon as possible. So no, I don’t see any real risk in not publishing for weeks.

Regards,