# \[Feature Request\] - Simple Power Loss Recovery Setting **URL:** \ **Category:** Features\ **Created:** [February 22, 2023, 2:36am UTC](https://klipper.discourse.group/t/feature-request-simple-power-loss-recovery-setting/6815 "2023-02-22T02:36:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kurofox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/839c29/32.png) [@Kurofox](https://klipper.discourse.group/u/Kurofox)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2023, 2:36am UTC](https://klipper.discourse.group/t/feature-request-simple-power-loss-recovery-setting/6815/1 "2023-02-22T02:36:31Z")
There should a power loss recovery for klipper. Some sort of recording of what layer it was last on before sudden interruption would be a good starting point to resume prints. It doesn’t even have to direct resume , it could just specify the layer it was last printed without having to dig through the logs and make cutting the rest of the model to print easier. I was thinking a checkpoint system would work , as in specifying if a layer is finished before moving on to the next. Then , if a layer gets cut off, the log would show what layer was last finished and the rest of the print could be manually printed. It would be less buggy or affect print quality such as Power loss recovery on marlin does because of the external memory. Since it runs on an external computer and does not require the main board to stutter, I think it would be a viable and straightforward way to resume a print. ---
**Author:** ![jakep\_82](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ea666f/32.png) [@jakep\_82](https://klipper.discourse.group/u/jakep_82)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2023, 2:54am UTC](https://klipper.discourse.group/t/feature-request-simple-power-loss-recovery-setting/6815/2 "2023-02-22T02:54:24Z")
This has been discussed many many times on GitHub, Discord, and probably here too. To my knowledge nobody is working on this, and there doesn’t seem to be much interest in adding this feature. See some discussion here about why your proposed solution is not likely to be added. > > > I've just suffered a power loss most of the way through an eight hour print. I'm… sure we have all had similar experiences. > Sometimes you can start it back up from where it stopped, but only if you can find out exactly where it stopped... well, maybe not exactly, but you need to be fairly close. > In many instances, you can just look at the log, find the last instruction and run the code from there, but here the log was lost in the power failure (I presume overwritten when the Pi restarted). > > Assuming that nothing has moved, it ought to be possible to find the precise position of the tool by counting the steps back to home: is there any way to do that? > If not, could the feature be added? > Or is there a better way to recover that I am not aware of? > > \[klippy.log\](https://github.com/KevinOConnor/klipper/files/4664890/klippy.log) > \