Many newer computers and OS's have a "Hibernation" mode or (in the case of Laptops mainly), they have a "Save-to-disk" function. This powers off the system and you can usually remove the hard disk drive and image it, however, the image will contain a "snapshot" of the system RAM and it should boot into the previous state. Obviously Network (and dial-up) Connections are broken, however devices are restored to their previous state.. After gathering the normal "snapshot" of live information, would putting the computer into hibernation (or standby-with-save-to-disk) be better than shutting it down? Also, say you have just gathered the data from an NTFS box, do you shut it down nicely (where every program gets an event to terminate, and can subsequently "do stuff") or do you just grab that big cord at the back and pull (NTFS volumes should survive quite easily). Does anyone have any thoughts on the usefulness of these procedures? Is there any "current pseud-standard" to just pull the plug after gathering the live data instead of shutting down? -- Benjamin Holmes This message is not an official communication of my employer, Getronics. E&OE. All spelling and grammatical errors are for your enjoyment and entertainment only and are copyright Benjamin Holmes. This message is guaranteed free of exotic diseases. This e-mail message and any attachments are confidential and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify me immediately by replying to this message and please destroy all copies of this message and attachments. Please also try to forget everything you have read that was contained in this E-Mail message, except this part, and you may not copy it. Thank you.
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b30 : Wed Jun 05 2002 - 09:49:15 PDT