checkpoint

The ability to reboot quickly and get back to operational from a checkpoint is useful.

If they want to stop me from going somewhere, they can just arrest me at the TSA checkpoint.

That's called checkpointing or checkpoint/restore these days, and it's sadly mostly limited to HPC and cluster environments.

Fork-and-persist is a nifty way of using the operating system's copy-on-write functionality to checkpoint state.

You can [D]eploy a navbeacon, which basically creates a checkpoint you can teleport to.

Periodically, and when shutting down Prometheus, the RAM-buffered time series heads are written out as a linear checkpoint to disk and recovered upon startup.

On one slide, you mention the locals setup a toll checkpoint.

While we were talking, his speed got too fast and he passed a radar checkpoint that a state trooper had set up.

This is the software that enables checkpoint/restore support for Docker.

In the good old days, it was necessary to checkpoint to get out of the way of the other jobs the computing facility had to perform..

Just as we were pulling up to the checkpoint, I got a call from someone I hadn't heard from in a long time.

I realized at the time that I had no idea what rights (if any) I had on Canadian soil at the Canadian entrance checkpoint.

They seem to define "persistence" variously, though I think they're talking about a rootkit in general (as opposed to checkpoint/restore).

Again, I think the extra complexity that "continuous" approach says is unnecessary relates to the fact that you want to be able to checkpoint the state of processing for various reasons.

Many people I know started by working a year or two at Checkpoint.