ABB IRC5 Backup .TAR file format

    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

  • massula February 27, 2024 at 12:09 AM

    Approved the thread.
    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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