autosave backup

 v1.0

Automatically backup your autosave files
Author
Sebastian Elsner
www.risefx.com
Requirements
or later
Created on: 15/06/2010
Updated on: 18/05/2010
Downloads: 299
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Sometimes nuke scripts do not get saved properly and even the autosave file is corrupt or not existing any more. By hooking this script into the save process autosave files are handled in a way shake did: create incremented backup files with a max number of files.

Installation:
1) Drop the script in you nuke path
2) Add this lines to your menu.py

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import autosave_backup
 
nuke.addOnScriptSave(autosave_backup.backup_autosave)

 

create a script, save it and watch it create the autosave iterations.

Comments (7)

owen williams said:

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Hi Sebastian. I have no clue about python, but have a real issue with NUKE only have 1 autosave, and cant seem to have increments. Does this script fix this? Could you do a more detailed breakdown on how to make this work. sorry if im not understanding this. Im not really any good at this kind of thing.
January 20, 2011

Sebastian Elsner said:

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Hi owen, the info is all here on nukepedia. Please read the user guides python section and/or watch the very good tutorials by frank. then do what I outlined above.
January 21, 2011

Shane Holloman said:

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Sebastian... thanks for this, I have done everything as I would normally add add python script and all seems well except "Attention! You do not have an autosave file!" Do we need to use certain syntax or naming convention on the initial file save name

Thank you in advance for your advice
Shane
April 26, 2011

Shane Holloman said:

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I typically use filename_V1.nk for my first save is this not what your script expects?
April 26, 2011

Shane Holloman said:

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I see this in the script: if os.path.exists(autosave_file): Are we to make this file and place it in our .nuke path, if so, do we call it: autosave_file.nk or??
April 26, 2011

Sebastian Elsner said:

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You dont have to. this should work out of the box. "Attention! You do not have an autosave file!" only means that there is nof .autosave. Make sure, there is one before you save. If there is none, there is something wrong on your end, otherwise its a script thing (which I doubt because we are using it here in our studio...)
April 27, 2011

srihari babu said:

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than k u
December 09, 2011

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