# Maker Edition Redundancy

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/maker-edition-redundancy/83483>\
**Category:** Maker\
**Tags:** redundancy\
**Created:** [December 22, 2023, 10:30pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/maker-edition-redundancy/83483 "2023-12-22T22:30:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Harrison\_Bearden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d26b3c/32.png) [@Harrison\_Bearden](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Harrison_Bearden)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2023, 10:30pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/maker-edition-redundancy/83483/1 "2023-12-22T22:30:37Z")

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Does Maker Edition allow gateway redundancy? I'm getting a "This platform edition does not support redundancy." error when I try to set a gateway as a master.

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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:** [December 22, 2023, 10:39pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/maker-edition-redundancy/83483/2 "2023-12-22T22:39:23Z")

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Nope, it's just as the error is telling you.

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**Author:** ![Harrison\_Bearden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/d26b3c/32.png) [@Harrison\_Bearden](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Harrison_Bearden)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2023, 11:00pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/maker-edition-redundancy/83483/3 "2023-12-22T23:00:02Z")

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That sucks. Is there any reason for this limitation? It would be really nice to have redundancy for Maker- I'm running my home server on old second-hand hardware so it's more of a question of when a node is going to fail 🤣

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**Author:** ![Matrix\_Engineering](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/matrix_engineering/32/19781_2.png) [@Matrix\_Engineering](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Matrix_Engineering)\
**Post date:** [December 22, 2023, 11:09pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/maker-edition-redundancy/83483/4 "2023-12-22T23:09:17Z")

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The software is free. Take regular backups.

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**Author:** ![matthew.ayre](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/matthew.ayre/32/19499_2.png) [@matthew.ayre](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/matthew.ayre)\
**Post date:** [January 17, 2024, 10:05am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/maker-edition-redundancy/83483/5 "2024-01-17T10:05:03Z")

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@Matrix_Engineering is right. My current methodology is:

1. Automated gateway backups
2. .gwbk files get backed up to a separate location
3. In the event of a failure, either spin up a docker container or install Ignition on another server
4. Configure the new server to look like the old one, if required (e.g. IP address, etc.)

In my case this should take less than 30 minutes which is more than acceptable in my setup 🙂