Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

"Westfall, Michael D" <[email protected]> · Thu, 6 Mar 2014 16:23:37 +0000

And a third problem:

The set of values I need to save and restore may span multiple IOCs.
So I'm thinking Autosave is not the right tool at all.

> I know that Autosave is generally used for automatically saving the values of
> a set of database records and restoring them at boot time, but I'd like to save
> a small set of values on command, and then be able to restore them on
> command.
> 
> I have found the create_triggered_set() function that I can run in the ioc
> startup script that assigns a database PV to trigger a save, and that seems to
> be a step in the right direction for what I want to do.
> 
> However, a couple of problems:
> 1) There seems to be no corresponding  function to assign a PV to trigger a
> restore.  I suppose I can get around that by using a subroutine record to call
> fdbrestore() when it is processed.
> 2) Even if I can get around issue 1), when I run create_triggered_set() in the
> startup script at boot time, it clobbers the existing saveset. Is there a way
> around this?
> 
> 
> Perhaps I'm trying to use the wrong tool? Is there a better one for what I
> want to do?

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System