# Restore FPMI Backup

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/restore-fpmi-backup/3270>\
**Category:** Archived Topics\
**Created:** [September 8, 2011, 9:36pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/restore-fpmi-backup/3270 "2011-09-08T21:36:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jonathan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/aeb1de/32.png) [@Jonathan](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Jonathan)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 9:36pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/restore-fpmi-backup/3270/1 "2011-09-08T21:36:33Z")

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I am trying to restore my FPMI backup onto a development box so i can export a window that accidently got deleted. I keep getting a OutOfMemoryError error.

the backup file ~582 MB

Thank you,  
[FPMIGateway.log](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/1X/3bfe890a124dde1ee55fea5366efc1e89e728356.log) (16 KB)

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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:** [September 9, 2011, 5:56pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/restore-fpmi-backup/3270/2 "2011-09-09T17:56:24Z")

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You’ll need to do it the manual way. Open the backup file in an archive program like 8-zip, and pull out the contents of the DB directory, and just copy them into your FPMI install’s DB directory.