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ABB IRC5 Backup .TAR file format

  • MasterGrogu
  • February 26, 2024 at 10:56 PM
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    • February 26, 2024 at 10:56 PM
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    Greetings fellow techs and debuggers,

    I have been taking backups on a ABB IRC5 controller, and this is the first time I have seen it in a .TAR file format. There is not anything I could find in the ABB manuals on file format for backups, but before I updated robot studio, usually it would just make the backup in my file manager as either a zip file or regular windows folder.

    Is this something to do with the Robot Studio version or extensions? Or is this a way to save memory within robot studio? either way you can extract the files from the .TAR as you normally would with a 7zip file.

    Could someone please expand on this small but tedious issue.

    Thanks

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    • February 27, 2024 at 2:25 PM
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    Quote from MasterGrogu

    I have been taking backups on a ABB IRC5 controller, and this is the first time I have seen it in a .TAR file format. There is not anything I could find in the ABB manuals on file format for backups, but before I updated robot studio, usually it would just make the backup in my file manager as either a zip file or regular windows folder.

    Are you taking backups via USB on the robot, or through RobotStudio over a network cable? It sounds like the latter, but you didn't specify.

    RS has a checkbox option on the Backup window for compressing the backup. I think it's checked by default, so doing the RS update may have turned it on. .TAR seems to be the compression type used by current versions of RS.

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    • February 27, 2024 at 4:07 PM
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    Yes my mistake, I am using Robot Studio. However, when I uncheck the archive box, the backup just fails immediately. What could be causing it to fail if you don't select 'Backup to archive file' ?

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    • February 27, 2024 at 4:24 PM
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    Also you have the option to perform the backup in .TAR on the teach pendant by select advance -> backup to archive in the backup menu. I would not call it an issue just another option.

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    • February 27, 2024 at 6:48 PM
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    I updated robot studio to the latest version and it solved my backup problem,

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  • Communication
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  • dx100
  • dx200
  • error
  • Ethernet
  • Ethernet IP
  • external axis
  • Fanuc
  • help
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  • I/O
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