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i have mysql database in which millions of insertions go on. Now there is a possibilty that the power present on laptop is going down and hence i would like to pause the application and resume it afterwards in same machine or in a different machine. All this has to be done programatically. Basically i would read the battery level of the syatem and then save the state. I am using ubuntu linux. I googled for saving application state but could find cryopid that doesn't seem the right candidate for this job. Any ideas on how to accomplish this.

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Shouldn't the system do this (i.e. hibernate if there is a danger of the battery running out) anyway? Windows does it, I'm sure Ubuntu can too. If it doesn't, it may be a hardware incompatibility. Anyway, it's off-topic here, voting to migrate on Superuser – Pekka 웃 Mar 4 '11 at 22:47
@Pekka -- Why Superuser? I would have said ServerFault myself. – Sean Vieira Mar 4 '11 at 22:50
@Sean for a hibernation issue on a battery-powered Laptop? Not really IMO. He happens to be running mySQL on the machine, but the question has nothing to do with it – Pekka 웃 Mar 4 '11 at 22:51
@Sean: A server on a battery-powered laptop? ;-) – Philipp Mar 4 '11 at 22:55
ok.. i agree that saving application state is OS issue. I would like to migrate the mysql from between two systems under some situations, when it is running – nikhil Mar 4 '11 at 22:55
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