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#77621 - 04/03/2002 16:30 live hibernation style checkpoints
eternalsun
Pooh-Bah

Registered: 09/09/1999
Posts: 1721
Loc: San Jose, CA
Is it possible to lay down a hibernation checkpoint, but keep on working... and then have the computer "unwind" and go back to the previous situation? What I mean by this is if I have 5 browser windows open, and I felt like playing a game that is not very stable, or I have other user's logged in with unsaved work -- i'd like to do the equivalent of hibernate without shutting down. If the computer locks up or crashes, then I can continue where the last checkpoint was.

Is this possible????? Ideas??

Calvin

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#77622 - 04/03/2002 17:05 Re: live hibernation style checkpoints [Re: eternalsun]
drakino
carpal tunnel

Registered: 08/06/1999
Posts: 7868
I doubt it is possible for the fact that restorinng from an old image could cause issues with the memory knowing about files that either changed, or were deleted.

Now if you don't need to worry about files when you restore back, something like GoBack works well, though you do have to reboot.

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#77623 - 04/03/2002 18:20 Re: live hibernation style checkpoints [Re: drakino]
eternalsun
Pooh-Bah

Registered: 09/09/1999
Posts: 1721
Loc: San Jose, CA
I'm not concerned about the files. I'm concerned about the programs running in memory! :-)

Calvin

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#77624 - 05/03/2002 14:50 Re: live hibernation style checkpoints [Re: eternalsun]
mlord
carpal tunnel

Registered: 29/08/2000
Posts: 14472
Loc: Canada
VMware can do this, no sweat at all.

Cheers

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#77625 - 05/03/2002 15:54 Re: live hibernation style checkpoints [Re: mlord]
wfaulk
carpal tunnel

Registered: 25/12/2000
Posts: 16706
Loc: Raleigh, NC US
And my university (I think -- it's been a while) had some IDE controllers that did the same sort of revert-to original state thing that VMWare does. That is, any changes to the hard drive were made in some sort of scratch space, but when the computer was rebooted, the scratch space was deleted and the computer reverted to how it was the last time it was rebooted. Pretty nifty. I have no idea what the product was, but it worked very well.
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