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1) Questions and Answers : Wish list : Automatic Rollback (Message 21515)
Posted 23 Mar 2006 by old_user103147
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The Model already does roll-backs for internal errors. If it hits a brick wall, it rewinds a Model day and retries. If it still doesn\'t get through, it rewinds a Model month and, finally, a Model year before crashing.

External things are another matter entirely and can come from anything from hardware problems, to operator error, to program mix. For example, Norton anti-Virus scans can cause conflict if it happens to lock a file for scan just as CPDN wants that file. (For that reason we recommend that the CPDN folder be excluded from scans.) Can it be programmed? Perhaps. But it seems a complicated problem to trap & evaluate all the possibilities; meanwhile, Carl and Tolu have more than they can handle keeping all the Projects afloat.

What were the symptoms of your crash?

Edit: Regular backups of the entire CPDN folder are also recommended, to prevent that which you experienced. (Such a backup saved one of my Spinup Runs ~195 years into a 200 Model-year Run...)


Anti-Virus exclusion is already done. And if manual back-up is necessary, it should be done automatically.
2) Questions and Answers : Wish list : Automatic Rollback (Message 21428)
Posted 19 Mar 2006 by old_user103147
Post:
The model already does check-pointing, so there\'s no reason why it couldn\'t implement automatic rollback when the model crashes. I just have a 78% sulfur crash, losing months of work. If I lose any more work, I have no choice but to leave the project.




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