Reliable backup for PC based automation
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Hayes Control Systems product story
Edited by the Engineeringtalk editorial team
Feb 23, 2004
The new Beckhoff TwinCAT Backup software package, exclusively available in the UK from Hayes Control Systems, has been specifically designed for users of PC-based automation systems.
The new Beckhoff TwinCAT Backup software package, exclusively available in the UK from Hayes Control Systems, has been specifically designed for users of PC-based automation systems.
It enables them to return their plant to service after a hardware failure in the shortest possible time, and with a minimum of user input.
In addition to storing programs, recipes and process data, TwinCAT Backup also stores all of the information required to set up a replacement PC.
This includes, for example, the PC name and user information, the configuration of the network to which the PC is connected, and the fieldbus card settings.
This enables the new machine to be set up quickly and accurately, ready for immediate operation, with little or no input from the user.
Though superficially similar results can be achieved with a disk-image backup, TwinCAT Backup offers many benefits.
In particular, disk images can only be transferred between machines with identical configurations.
With TwinCAT Backup, however, the replacement PC can have different fieldbus cards, and even a different operating system.
Within practical limits, these differences are automatically catered for, which means that users no longer have to stock multiple spare PCs which are identical to those which they have in service, and they no longer have to worry about the availability of PCs with obsolete configurations to use as replacements.
TwinCAT Backup is compatible with all types of backup media, including disks, USB memory sticks and network drives.
Backups can be performed automatically using a scheduler, or can be performed manually, as required.
Incremental backups are supported, minimising the time taken by regular backup procedures.
In addition to its primary use as a backup tool, Beckhoff TwinCAT Backup from Hayes Control Systems also offers a convenient method of installing program updates, or software related to configuration changes, on industrial PC systems.
Once again, it can be used in this way without the need for specialist knowledge on the part of the person carrying out the installation, making it a powerful distribution tool for software enhancements.
For those wishing to test for themselves the functionality and power of the Beckhoff TwinCAT software package, a demonstration version can be downloaded free-of-charge from the Beckhoff website, where further information about the package can also be found.
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