Hi, I am real interested in seaside/magritte/pier and as a newbie (in squeak but not in smalltalk) I would like to do a little Pier/seaside website. I chose to run my squeak process in a linux server with a framebuffer X server to administrate my image with VNC access (and not by the seaside inspector available with halos). I did it with a special user (not root) and my firewall connection configuration permits me to access externally to my webserver on standard port 80. But I am a bit unsecure with a deployment of a "classical" pier configuration. If my machine crash, I lost all my data. So I need to do backup. I can run a: SmalltalkImage current snapshot: true andQuit: false. but if a user does something on my website, it's rejected. So I read somewhere (maybe thru this mailing-list archive) about a way to do backup. Actually, I would like to save the image everytime it's possible. I heard about the use of: UnixProcess saveImageInBackgroundNicely but I don't know how to use it. With forkHeadlessSqueakAndDoThenQuit message, it seems to be possible to save my image in another until I do the permanent and tested weekly backup. So if I crash or there is a glitch, my image or the periodically save image can be broken but I can restore the most recent backup. If someone can explain me how to do (or find how to do) this, I'll be glad. I don't want to build a wiki/blog like site and lost in a crash all the readers'comments/posts. I also noticed some errors in the deployment of squeakfoundation.org. By clicking on 'Edit' or 'Login', there's error. But instead of permitting me to go back to the previous page with a short error message (and advertising the webadmin) like on the other classic php/jsp website, I go to debug message. It's really bad. I guess that when I click on 'Debug' I open a morph Debugger window on the squeak image. It's not what I (and probably the squeakfoundation.org webmaster) want. I am sure there is a way to shortcut the doesNotUnderstand message in seaside/pier so that in a deployment mode, the user has just a friendly error message and the webmaster received an email from squeak with the debug message infos and the context. So I need your help to try to develop a website with seaside/pier because I believe in those kind of way to develop websites (I like servlets too but it's ugly, heavy and I prefer smalltalk as I used smalltalk or ObjectiveC during the most important part of my life as a programmer). I thought that I just can develop component and toggle the deployment preference tag to true, to have a ready-to-use website but there are missing things. As I said before: + how to save in one or two temporary images without stopping the working pier site? and without going (as I do now) in config page (the only place when I said 'deployment' to false) to toggle halos and then to have an inspector which permits me to manually save (I know Lukas did so too but it's not a good way). There's database way too for persistence and I will probably look at Magma/REServe and something like that. I think there are smalltalk that can save multiimage (visualworks can do this I guess) and it could be a good option that squeak do that too. + how to build a beautiful debug messages to a secure and friendly deployment? The example of the squeakfoundation.org website is a horrible one. As with the 'Toggle Halos' button in the oops-i-didnt-see-i-toogle-deployment-to-false case, it's dangerous and every visitor can crash or browse in the image without getting the root seaside admin (that could be nd5 encrypted too). I hope you will have answers. Very thanks for reading this a-bit-too-long mail, -- Martial