# Naming of gateway backups

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/naming-of-gateway-backups/3133>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [July 27, 2011, 4:56pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/naming-of-gateway-backups/3133 "2011-07-27T16:56:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![Robert](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e95f7d/32.png) [@Robert](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Robert)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2011, 4:56pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/naming-of-gateway-backups/3133/1 "2011-07-27T16:56:52Z")

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For integraters that maintain a number of different gateways for different customers, it would be really nice the gateway backup file was named afer the gatwway name by default instead of Ignition-backup…

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**Author:** ![Carl.Gould](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/carl.gould/32/7262_2.png) [@Carl.Gould](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Carl.Gould)\
**Post date:** [July 28, 2011, 3:35pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/naming-of-gateway-backups/3133/2 "2011-07-28T15:35:38Z")

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Yeah I like this idea except that probably 90% of the “gateway names” out there are random gobblety-gook… I don’t think many people have much cause to actually set that name.

Maybe using it in gateway backups would prompt them to!