I don't use Solidworks electrical myself but I have several colleague's that do.
Does anyone have any recommendation or SOP to make the archiving happen automatically, for instance once a week?
I do mean of the entire database (archive environment) not just 1 project.
ps: we don't have any PDM system nor are we planning on getting one
Up until 2016 SP4, I don't know any feature in the application that allow programming the automatic backup.
This following button allows packing al the database in a SolidWorks Electrical File format.
We use it to save a copy before updating version.
Up until 2016 SP4, expect to do a few tries when yor database is large (about 70 projects). The file size for us is about 4 GB. Which is a lot and is directly related to how many and how large the 3D models of SolidWorks Electrical 3D you have. It also takes long to finish.
Best regars,
Luis,
That's the function that is being used at the moment but .... one has to remember to activate it at the end of the workday because it can easily take 6 hours for it to do it's thing. Which is the reason I was curious to see if there was something that could automate it instead of the rely on people thinking of doing it.
What we are currently doing, which is no explicitly recomended by SolidWorks as far as I remember, is doing the daily backup copy of the servers of our company. SolidWorks Electrical and its database is installed in one of those servers, so the database goes copied in that other process. In case we have to recover something we "select the files and folders, copy and paste". Worked so far after a few tries of learning a couple of years ago.
In the end you need someone to do the global safety backup, but if you have that process automated, then you can include this one inside that other.
Hope it helps,
True and yes of course our IT has a system set up so that there's daily backup's made of all the servers containing among other things the SWe database.
But it isn't an elegant solution especially if and when one needs to retrieve something out of the database.
Thank you for the advice Luis
I don't use electrical either.
If you are looking for a tool to archive SQL database, Microsoft SQL Server Management tool can do it. And it's free.
You can download it from Microsoft Download page.
You can easily add different schedules to backup your database at different periods.