[00:00] Sometimes when working with Ignition resources, it may be necessary to take a backup of an individual project instead of the entire gateway. There are a few different ways to do this, so let's talk about each one. The first way that we're going to be taking a project backup is from the gateway webpage. You find all of your projects by navigating to the platform tab and expanding system and clicking on projects. We can see here I have one listing for my project and clicking on the more options button lets us do a few different things. There are options to create duplicates, disable, or edit projects, but what we're looking for is this export option. Clicking on this, will download our project as a zip file, which can be restored onto the gateway. It might be tempting to think that the zip file contains the project export. In fact, the zip file is the project export. So you don't need to extract out the contents, you just upload the entire file when you import. If I want to restore this project onto a different gateway, I can just come back to this project's page on that gateway and then click on the import project button.

[01:10] We get this popup that lets us choose the zip file, and then we have to give the project a name. If we give this project a different name like Project One and click on import, we'll have essentially created a duplicate. There's also an option to overwrite the project with this checkbox if you use a name that already exists, like my project, and then click on import. So now that we've talked about how to take project exports, let's also talk about the contents of it. So for this, I'm going to open up my designer. One useful way of thinking about a project export is that everything in the project browser here on the left hand side will be included in the export. So this means that my alarm notification pipelines and transaction groups and perspective and vision resources and reports from this project will be included in the backup. Notably, absent are things like database connections, device connections, and tags. Only project resources will be included in a project backup.

[02:07] So keeping that in mind, while we're in the designer here, there are a couple of other ways to backup project resources. One of those ways is that I can come up to file at the top and choose export. And what's different about this export is that I get this dialogue appearing here, which includes a list of all my project resources and I have a chance to pick and choose which ones I want to export. So whereas before we were taking what was called a full project export meaning, a total backup of everything in the project. From here, we can take what's called a partial project export, meaning that we'll only export the resources that we pick. There is one final way of exporting project resources. So I'll go ahead and close out of this. Now, suppose that I want to export my empty alarm pipeline here, and it's the only thing I want to export. I don't care about anything else in the project, just this pipeline. I could do that from the interface that I was just in, But my other option is to find my project browser here, right click on the pipeline and to click export.

[03:03] You'll find that most project resources will have an export option on them, allowing you to take a partial project export with just that resource included. These partial project exports will still be zip files, they'll still contain everything they need to run as a standalone project. So we can use these tools both from the gateway webpage and the designer here to easily transfer individual resources or entire projects from one gateway or project to another.