How To Retrieve A Project - Siemens SIMATIC PCS 7 Service Manual

When the "Archive" dialog box closes, archiving is completed.
Write protection
Note
If you copy the project directly to the CD/DVD, all files and directories will be write-protected.
Before using the project again, you need to remove the "Read-only" file attribute for all files
and folders in the project.
Backing up configuration data
Also back up the following configuration data:
● GSD files (Siemens\STEP 7\S7Data\GSD) to another partition or to another drive
● C scripts of the standard functions
Backup of PDM configuration data on the Engineering Station
PDM configuration data is included automatically in the backup of your PCS 7 project.
Additional information
You can find information on product versions in the
Readme file (see "Preface (Page 9)").
3.2.2.3

How to retrieve a project

Requirements
● The tool that was used to archive the project is installed (default:
● The defaults required for the tool that is used to archive the project have been set (for
additional information, refer to the section "How to archive a project (Page 17)").
Note
You can find the setup for
PKZip is automatically installed during the PCS 7 system setup.
Service Support and Diagnostics (V8.2)
Service Manual, 03/2016, A5E36200111-AA
PKZip on the Process Control System; SIMATC PCS 7 DVD.
Ensuring Availability
Process Control System PCS 7; PCS 7 -
PKZip ).
3.2 Data backup
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