Saving your work from power outages: a hot tip for Trainzers

[JonMyrlennBailey]

During bad, stormy or wet weather it is good to have Autosave intervals set for no longer than 30 minutes while doing Surveyor work. 45 minute intervals are OK for good weather.

Here in Sacramento County, California, where I live, the local power company is lousy. The lights goes out at least once (25 minutes to a couple hours) for each spell of rainy weather.

In rotten weather, it also a good idea to immediately follow up each Autosave episode with a manual save operation so any Session edits don't get lost in the event of a power interruption

if you customarily save new route work while "not saving the session" so the old custom session edits are maintained.


Autosave, to the best of my knowledge, is not capable of saving and recovering your custom SESSION edits (ie. Display Custom HUD, InputTable Rule, Auto-pilot command, Schedule Library) , only Route edits. The Autosave version of a route, when opened, will only feature an associated Default session. I don't think Schedule Library or InputTable can be stored in the game globally to boot.

 

[trainman7616]

This has been common knowledge for years. Yet another waste of N3Vs bandwidth.

 

[Lataxe]

During bad, stormy or wet weather it is good to have Autosave intervals set for no longer than 30 minutes while doing Surveyor work. 45 minute intervals are OK for good weather.

Here in Sacramento County, California, where I live, the local power company is lousy. The lights goes out at least once (25 minutes to a couple hours) for each spell of rainy weather.

In rotten weather, it also a good idea to immediately follow up each Autosave episode with a manual save operation so any Session edits don't get lost in the event of a power interruption

if you customarily save new route work while "not saving the session" so the old custom session edits are maintained.


Autosave, to the best of my knowledge, is not capable of saving and recovering your custom SESSION edits (ie. Display Custom HUD, InputTable Rule, Auto-pilot command, Schedule Library) , only Route edits. The Autosave version of a route, when opened, will only feature an associated Default session. I don't think Schedule Library or InputTable can be stored in the game globally to boot.

If your power supply is "lousy" a better solution would be a UPS. This will not only keep your computer, peripherals and programs running during a power outage, brown-out or spike but will also protect the hardware from such events. It doesn't take much of a spike to fry a motherboard; even a brown-out can cause damage.

Lataxe

 

[bendorsey]

Yeah - I used to live in Florida which is the second most lightening prone area in the world (some place in Africa had us beat). I ran everything through a surge protector with a 1500 watt UPS plugged into that and had the Gmax autobak function set for 5 minute intervals. When it really got to booming-banging-and-crashing I unplugged everything from the wall and waited it out. I backed everything up on 3 external hard drives one of which was only plugged in when doing backups.

If the power "blipped" (off and on in a second) it was over before I even noticed. If it went off and stayed off I had about 30 minutes to decide to either keep on Gmaxing or shut down and wait it out. In either case I lost no work and unless the bolt hit right on the power pipe connection on the roof of my house was fairly safe from damage.

Ben (heap-big-chicken)

 

[martinvk]

Don't have to live in Florida to use a UPS. Using a UPS has been standard operating procedure since I started with an 8088 PC. It's not if but when the power will dip, spike or die, no matter how reliable they say they are.

 

[bendorsey]

Florida Power & Light should have been renamed Florida Flash and Flicker lol.

Ben

 

[JCitron]

Don't have to live in Florida to use a UPS. Using a UPS has been standard operating procedure since I started with an 8088 PC. It's not if but when the power will dip, spike or die, no matter how reliable they say they are.

Yup. I swear by the as well and have used them for years too.