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Creating projects from a backup

RSLogix 500 creates its own backups and revision files. Normally, octoplant is configured to ignore these files during comparison and when creating new versions (i.e. these backups are not included in the versioned files). If you do NOT want these backup files to be ignored, you must change your RSLogix 500 component type to include the _BAK???.rss files during the versioning process.

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This change will be applied to all other components of this type in your project. The size of your archive will grow rapidly with each new change and may cause a disk space problem on your server.

To change your RSLogix 500 component type:

  1. Open the AdminClient.
  2. Click Component type editor.
  3. In the Project tree, go to Rockwell and select the RSLogix500 component type.
  4. Select the line with *_BAK???.rss under Ignore these files. Click on it with the right mouse button and select Delete row. Figure: Component type editor module,_BAK???.rss save files

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ALTERNATIVE: If you only want to add a previous backup to a version or data backup, you must rename the _BAK???.* file in your project folder. Change or remove the BAK part of the file name, then the file will no longer be ignored; it will be added to the version and backed up by octoplant.