Does Reality support database check pointing

Reality supports check pointing (e.g. for host utilities like Veritas tape agents, Sun ZFS file systems, Windows Ghost…)

Either a simple TL-SWITCH can be used to give a known recovery point or the more advanced database freeze/unfreeze that is used by Physical Save.

Database freeze/unfreeze is available using Reality realdump commands – e.g. realdump -f -s database_name. This momentarily freeze all database operations and syncs data to disk, you can then call any transient utility routine (that requires use of the check-point) and then unfreezing the database with a realdump -u.

Refer to a realdump -? from a Reality host command prompt for descriptions of options and in the on-line docs.

Note: The sync option "-s"  is only available from V14.0.

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