Our older IRC5's take a lot longer to make a backup. The newer ones have better main computers with faster processors. Of course, those back up quite quickly.
Yes. And also possibly the pendant's processor, and the speed at which they can communicate/transfer data.
I didn't know the Cap Bank would sustain the 24V to the Computer Unit that long.
Which Computer Unit and RobotWare is it?
Are you backing up to the hard drive or one of the USB?
If USB, which port and what size is the USB?
Have you compared the size of the backups between the normal (4s) and the slow?
They all use the same path?
Had someone years ago use the Home directory for backups which caused the backups to grow large but still under 15s to backup.
Typically in the hard drive (memory card) root directory is a folder named the serial # of the controller/robot. In that folder is usually another folder named BACKUP. That's where I put backups. I've also seen a BACKUP folder in the root directory instead.
The HOME directory is part of the backup. If storing the backups in HOME directory, the backups are embedded in backups. Look in the home directory and look at the backups to see if that's happening.
What is the robot doing while the backups are being done?
Regarding the computer - if RW6.08 is running, it may have the newer style DSQC1000/1018 or newer DSQC1024 (motor cable attaches front top/left). I've only seen a couple compact controllers and they had the older DSQC639 computers (motor cable attaches front top/right).
The CPU load spiked when the program repeatedly attempted to jump to a [GOTO] label upon startup due to unsatisfied conditions. I'm resolved this by stop(external hold) the robot, autobackup(System input signal), and then cycle start after 30sec.
Recommand create routine(backup process monitoring) and change task priority while backup(Sytem input trigger).
