The menu item Backup & Restore (Setup → Backup & Restore) allows you to backup the project or restore it from the archive.

Backup is a special file that contains all configuration of your project: connections, registers, images, graphs, trends, events, recipes, dashboards, etc. Backups do not include collected data.

You can use backups to restore projects into previous states or transfer them to another WebHMI.

The Backups tab manages backups stored on the SD card. Here you can create and save backup on the SD card, load from SD card to your PC, restore or delete particular backup.

The Restore tab manages backup restore options:

• External file from PC option
• Option to ignore version check - the system checks pair of 'firmware version - backup project version' before restore and won't allow this operation in case of big difference in versions. With this option you will force restore.
• Option to preserve collected data - by default, the restore operation clears collected data. With this option you can preserve collected data.
• Reset admin password option - sometimes you may forget admin credentials for the old project, with this option you may restore it and still get access to it

During rapid development sometimes you may create critical big changes in your project which you don't want to lose at no any condition. Another reason - in some firmware revisions a bug was noticed which lead to corrupted backup file creation at certain condition. Automatic backup creation helps to avoid your valuable backups loose.