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OrCAD - Tip of the Week: Do not lose your work with the Auto backup feature

DesignTech

I have been working on a design for some time. I made a lot of changes in the design, added new parts, and edited properties. But while doing all this, I did not click the Save button. Suddenly, my IT rolled out a mandatory update, and my machine restarted.

Has something like this happened to you as well? How did you recover your work in such a case?

Well, I had enabled Auto backup from the Options menu. A backup copy of my design was getting saved every ten minutes. I chose to create three backups of my design. So, the maximum work I can lose amounts to ten minutes, and I will have a maximum of three backup designs only.

This backup only triggers if manual save was not done in the specified backup interval, ten minutes in my case.

Enable it today.

 

Team DesignTech

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  • DesignTech
    in reply to soll

    The Auto save feature explained in the link is in Allegro PCB Editor while this tip is for OrCAD Capture (Allegro Design Entry CIS).

    Regarding the way it works, autosave, saves the changes in the active file. It doesn’t create additional backup copies. While Auto backup will create backup design files.

  • soll
    in reply to DesignTech

    Thank you for the clarification !

  • cjf001

    I have the interval set for 10minutes as well, 3 backups. What I am seeing is that the backups are NOT created every 10 minutes. I saw the first 2 get created 20 minutes apart and then the 3rd an 1.25 Hrs later. Then no additional backups for over 2 hours. A lot of work can be lost in this time. Why are they not occurring every 10 minutes according to the setting? I only backed up manually when I saw the auto backs not being created.

  • Schulz Jordan
    in reply to cjf001

    It worked fine at my end. Check with hotfix version - 17.4 S030 or 17.2 S083

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