Monday, March 04, 2019

Re: Live ACPI "Hibernate" Style Snapshot possible without Powering Down?

On Mon, Mar 04, 2019 at 07:06:15PM -0500, Z Ero wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Curious if there is a facility to save system memory state to disk for
> recovery such as is done the ZZZ (hibernate) command without actually
> powering down? Could be useful to return to a previous active memory
> state for devices that are not on UPS or not closely monitored but do
> preform non-scripted batch work.
>
> So, for example if there is a transient power interruption on
> 03-05-2019 at 12 AM the device could be configured just to reboot to
> the state it was in at 03-04-2019 at 12 AM where it was doing similar
> work. I don't mean load a file back up but reload a previous active
> memory / process state as if returning from hibernate.
>
> Thus to enable this hibernate style dumps would be saved periodically
> by cron for example.
>
> I understand that for some dumping active memory to disk without
> powering down might present a security concern but this is not a
> problem for my application.
>
> Thanks
>

We don't do this.

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