# What is the appropriate way to generate scheduled backups of Vision projects? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ignition\ **Tags:** vision\ **Created:** [April 21, 2025, 11:46pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/what-is-the-appropriate-way-to-generate-scheduled-backups-of-vision-projects/105361 "2025-04-21T23:46:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sherman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@sherman](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/sherman)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2025, 11:46pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/what-is-the-appropriate-way-to-generate-scheduled-backups-of-vision-projects/105361/1 "2025-04-21T23:46:49Z")
Gateway backups are covered in the Gateway Settings with a basic cronjob type interface, that's great. But they explicitly don't include the projects themselves! Is there an equivalent system in place for Project backups? I looked through Project Properties and there is nothing in there. EAM has gateway backup manipulations but not apparently Projects. I see that I can schedule things in Gateway Event Scripts but I am not sure how to schedule project backups, especially considering that not every project is active and many of them won't be running Gateway Event Scripts. ---
**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:** [April 22, 2025, 12:00am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/what-is-the-appropriate-way-to-generate-scheduled-backups-of-vision-projects/105361/2 "2025-04-22T00:00:19Z")
> [@sherman](#): > > they explicitly don't include the projects themselves Citation needed. Scheduled gateway backups are just like any other gateway backup, and **absolutely** include projects. If you want to _just_ backup your projects, that's a separate (valid) concern, but scheduled gateway backups will have your projects as well. ---
**Author:** ![sherman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@sherman](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/sherman)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2025, 12:01am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/what-is-the-appropriate-way-to-generate-scheduled-backups-of-vision-projects/105361/3 "2025-04-22T00:01:28Z")
Oh I might have read a line wrong! I really hope so -- I'll check now. Thanks ---
**Author:** ![sherman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e5b9ba/32.png) [@sherman](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/sherman)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2025, 1:10am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/what-is-the-appropriate-way-to-generate-scheduled-backups-of-vision-projects/105361/4 "2025-04-22T01:10:11Z")
Fortunately, I was completely wrong! I got all of my projects back in my restored gateway. Thank you!