Hi, I am using 15 global variables in my flows, to take care of several status events. If/when I restart node-red or reboot the server, I am losing those variables. Is there any way to make then persistent through restart?

[image] zenofmud: A guide to understanding 'Persistent Context' Your guide is GREAT! Thanks a lot.

@zenofmud Paul, is it allowed to have 2 different localfilesystem modules, like this: contextStorage: { myFile1: { module: "localfilesystem"}, myFile2: { module: "localfilesystem" } }, and then address them this way: global.set("foo", 123, "myFile1"); global.set…

If you had then you would know the answer by now.

Thank you. If you answered just YES or NO, you would have saved a lot of characters.

[image] fmarzocca: If you answered just YES or NO, you would have saved a lot of characters Maybe Colin didn't know or didn't have time to test it for you or was perhaps encouraging you to try it out as a voyage of discovery and self learning? The thing about this forum is - it is literally …

I was in a train when I wrote my messages. Now I have just reached home and I will have to test, but I was trying to save some time if someone already knew the answer. Do not assume that everyone is cheating. I do appreciate this forum, indeed. But I wasn't at my desk when I have answered the questi…

Excellent, thanks. I had looked at your syntax and it looked ok, but I couldn't test it at that time. Now I know the answer should I need to do this. Out of interest what use case do you have that needs this?

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maybe this will help: A guide to understanding 'Persistent Context'

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