What is the best backup procedure for Xilinx?
I have used snapshot which seems to copy the whole directory into the current director. You can attach a description to it. Archive compresses the data. And Save Project As seems to get rid of some of the clutter in the directory.
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Good timing.
Use a makefile and your favorite source coutrol system.
See for example, John Retta's recent post: Subject: Re: Xilinx ISE 7.1 - Can this get any worse? Message-ID: Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 06:24:02 GMT
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Well that begs another question. I am a post DOS Xilinx user. I understand that DOS is still being supported and I am a bit of a DOS dinosaur myself. So does it behove me to start making batch files and processing stuff using DOS batch files?
I would recommend installing Cygwin and using a full featured make. I'm using this since years on Windows NT/XP and it works perfectly.
Klaus
Project > Cleanup then Project > Archive
I personnaly use a modified cleanup batch since the Xilinx one does (did?) forget a number of useless files (log) & subdir...and it does erase the resulting files... But basically it works if source files is what you want to archive. The idea is that you should be able to rebuild the resulting files from the backup. If you want to save resulting files (like .bit or .hex), save them first !
Bert
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