What are the odds of getting the code you use for doing the image persistancy with OSProcess? (Or is that already in Pier)

:-) Cheers, Brian On Feb 8, 2007, at 1:06 PM, Lukas Renggli wrote: > Hi Eric, > >> I am looking into using Pier just so that I can use a wiki based on >> Smalltalk and get more experience with it (Pier and Smalltalk). My >> question is based on the persistence... it seems all of the data is >> being saved in the image. Is there any 'safe usage' suggestions? >> Or do I just save the image from time to time? I noticed there was >> a magma backend, and I was curious as to whether one could start >> out with using the image for persistence and later move to magma? >> I'm thinking of this, as I just don't want to start with magma >> (yet). One step at a time. Do you have any suggestions or tips >> for persisting the data safely? (Just don't want to lose >> everything I put in it) > > please check the mailing list archive, there has been a lot of > discussion on this topic. > > Personally I use the image persistency for all my running instances, > and it works well so far. Of course there is also a certain danger, > if you don't have backups and screw up your image. With OSProcess > loaded the snapshots are taken in a forked instance of the vm, doing > the whole thing transparently in the background. > > The magma persistency is certainly very interesting, but I don't know > if it works with the latest version of Pier. As far as I know the > Magma persistency can be activated later on as well, but you have to > ask Keith, the author of this plug-in. > > Cheers, > Lukas > > -- > Lukas Renggli > http://www.lukas-renggli.ch > > > > _______________________________________________ > SmallWiki, Magritte, Pier and Related Tools ... > https://www.iam.unibe.ch/mailman/listinfo/smallwiki