Miscellaneous; Backup And Restore - ABB ACS580 Firmware Manual

132 Program features

Miscellaneous

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Backup and restore

You can make backups of the settings manually to the assistant panel. The assistant
panel also keeps one automatic backup. You can restore a backup to another drive,
or a new drive replacing a faulty one. You can make backups and restore on the
panel or with the Drive composer PC tool.
Backup
Manual backup
Make a backup when necessary, for example, after you have started up the drive or
when you want to copy the settings to another drive.
Parameter changes from fieldbus interfaces are ignored unless you have forced
parameter saving with parameter
Automatic backup
The assistant panel has a dedicated space for one automatic backup. An automatic
backup is created two hours after the last parameter change. After completing the
backup, the panel waits for 24 hours before checking if there are additional parameter
changes. If there are, it creates a new backup overwriting the previous one when two
hours have passed after the latest change.
You cannot adjust the delay time or disable the automatic backup function.
Parameter changes from fieldbus interfaces are ignored unless you have forced
parameter saving with parameter
Restore
The backups are shown on the panel. Automatic backups are marked with icon
and manual backups with
following display you can view backup contents and restore all parameters or select a
subset to be restored.
Note: To restore a backup, the drive has to be in Local control.
96.07 Parameter save
96.07 Parameter save
. To restore a backup, select it and press
manually.
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