# Synchronize images between central and edge gateway

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/synchronize-images-between-central-and-edge-gateway/111746>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** edge, ignition83\
**Created:** [October 27, 2025, 8:41pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/synchronize-images-between-central-and-edge-gateway/111746 "2025-10-27T20:41:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![mazeyrat](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/mazeyrat/32/10955_2.png) [@mazeyrat](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mazeyrat)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2025, 8:41pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/synchronize-images-between-central-and-edge-gateway/111746/1 "2025-10-27T20:41:20Z")

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**Ignition 8.3**

I'm looking for a solution to synchronize images from a central gateway to several edge gateway

I was planned to used a windows files sync tools or rsync in case of linux gateway  
and a gateway scan command. is it safe ? or we have to use the resource API to update files.

Perhaps this feature is planned for EAM module ?

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**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 27, 2025, 10:21pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/synchronize-images-between-central-and-edge-gateway/111746/2 "2025-10-27T22:21:47Z")

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I'm not sure what the future holds for the EAM module, but yes, you can absolutely do this yourself via the filesystem; there's no risk as long as you correctly invoke the scan endpoint yourself afterwards.

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**Author:** ![Aiasa21](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aeb1de/32.png) [@Aiasa21](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Aiasa21)\
**Post date:** [October 28, 2025, 7:19am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/synchronize-images-between-central-and-edge-gateway/111746/3 "2025-10-28T07:19:15Z")

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> [@paul-griffith](#):
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> I'm not sure what the future holds for the EAM module

@paul-griffith, What do you mean? Read like that, it almost sounds like the future of the EAM module is uncertain 😅 jokes aside, since we’re about to purchase it, I wanted to understand if there are any future plans to discontinue its development.

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**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 28, 2025, 3:33pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/synchronize-images-between-central-and-edge-gateway/111746/4 "2025-10-28T15:33:42Z")

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Let me rephrase:  
The EAM module will continue to exist and support all the capabilities it currently does. I don't know what the future holds in terms of "additional capabilities", because the sky is really the limit with the new configuration model in 8.3.