Saving images incrementally - can it be done?

[redmotion]

Is it possible to save images automatically, say in increments based on every 100 or say, 1000 samples?

I ask this because I tend to leave renders running overnight and while I've managed to render for 14hrs and was able to save the image the following morning several times over the past few weeks, last night the computer rebooted for some reason and I had nothing to show for it!

(I've a feeling it was the cleaner knocking the power cables, but can't be sure! But the monitor cable was loose...)

It would also allow people to guage how long a particular render needs to run before the time vs improvement quality reaches a cut off point and perhaps how long their hardware can run before overheating, for example.

Thanks.

[matej]

This has been asked several times and yes, I agree it would be a handy feature (not difficult to implement either)

[andi]

+1 from me, even so i use linux what does what i want to do. Instead of windows vista what says sometimes your computer will be restarted in 15 min. if you don't click here.
That way one would have a backup in case octane crashes and one could also make an animation of the rendering process.