# Vision 8.1 Gateway Backup button does not do anything

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/vision-8-1-gateway-backup-button-does-not-do-anything/85684>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Tags:** ignition81, vision\
**Created:** [February 14, 2024, 2:15pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/vision-8-1-gateway-backup-button-does-not-do-anything/85684 "2024-02-14T14:15:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![Brad\_Niemi1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@Brad\_Niemi1](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Brad_Niemi1)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2024, 2:15pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/vision-8-1-gateway-backup-button-does-not-do-anything/85684/1 "2024-02-14T14:15:41Z")

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Trying to do a gateway backup, but when I press the backup button, nothing happens.  
Tried closing down everything, and restarting but no difference.

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**Author:** ![Brad\_Niemi1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@Brad\_Niemi1](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Brad_Niemi1)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2024, 2:22pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/vision-8-1-gateway-backup-button-does-not-do-anything/85684/2 "2024-02-14T14:22:21Z")

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disregard, it did the backup so fast the screen never changed

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2024, 3:42pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/vision-8-1-gateway-backup-button-does-not-do-anything/85684/3 "2024-02-14T15:42:06Z")

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> [@Brad\_Niemi1](#):
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> so fast the screen never changed

I've never seen that. Are you sure that, after you clicked on Backup, that it wasn't busy **assembling** the backup for several seconds?

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**Author:** ![Brad\_Niemi1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecd19e/32.png) [@Brad\_Niemi1](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Brad_Niemi1)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2024, 6:30pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/vision-8-1-gateway-backup-button-does-not-do-anything/85684/4 "2024-02-14T18:30:10Z")

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no, I checked in my download file and had a dozen files