# What is the preferred way to save variables?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-is-the-preferred-way-to-save-variables/21918>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** jld, hdf5, jld2\
**Created:** [March 15, 2019, 4:36pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-is-the-preferred-way-to-save-variables/21918 "2019-03-15T16:36:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![FHell](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/fhell/32/2421_2.png) [@FHell](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/FHell)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2019, 11:14am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-is-the-preferred-way-to-save-variables/21918/17 "2019-11-02T11:14:00Z")

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We have moved to BSON.jl and it seems to work fairly reliably for the time being. Haven’t stress tested it in cluster environments yet though.

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