I agree, these kinds of function are common. My concern was how to trigger them when running in a virtual machine running Linux with no vendor support for that configuration.
I was told over the weekend that Linux has a SigQuiesce signal that fires in this situation. That at least points me in the right direction. Sorry for the malformed and tangential question, Nick On Mar 3, 2014, at 6:34 AM, Steven Harris <st...@stevenharris.info> wrote: > Nick, > > are you aware that Oracle has ALTER DATABASE SUSPEND/RESUME and DB2 has SET > WRITE SUSPEND/RESUME for DATABASE ? These allow you to stop io while you > take a snapshot, and resume afterwards. > I assume any mature DBMS would have something similar to these. > > Regards > > Steve > > Steven Harris > TSM SME > Canberra Australia
