Hi bigmoose,

I sign the other posts above: Clearly check if you really need to restart the process at it's point. If you checkpoint and restore a Perl script (I think I saw a module for this years ago, but can't find it now), not everything gets restored starting at your database connections.

If all you need is to secure few hashes, writing a tie()-module might be an option.

You could store your data in a local hash within the tied module and copy all write access to some persistant data source (like a database, hard disk, other server, ...)

But again... is it worth the time?