quiesce

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When a backup product requests a backup, it can tell VSS to "quiesce" these VSS-aware applications.

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  1. To become quiet or calm; become silent. The village, after a season of acute conjecture, quiesced into that sarcastic sufferance of the anomaly into which it may have been noticed that small communities are apt to subside from such occasions. Howells, Annie Kilburn, xxx.
  2. In philology, to become silent, as a letter; come to have no sound. Amer. Jour. Philol., VIII. 282.

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  • I'm not increasing pay but looking to quiesce my business activities in the immediate term and look at ways of improving it over time. —  Rss news feed for Morning Advertiser
  • Slide 21: ZFS and Application Deployment • Consider deferring snapshotting and backup tasks to ZFS • Simplify your application file management story • e.g. RDBMS server typically store content on filesystems > greatly simplified means of backing up data > use ZFS snapshot and restore features to house DB files > momentarily quiesce DB, clone or snapshot and continue > even gives you an off-line copy against which another —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • New APIs to allow applications to quiesce VMs for the purposes of cloning, replication, snapshots, or backups —  blog.scottlowe.org
  • When a backup product requests a backup, it can tell VSS to "quiesce" these VSS-aware applications. —  DonationCoder.com Forum
  • With a little help from InnoDB's transaction and multi-versioning support, it's possible to keep the read lock for a very short period of time-just long enough to quiesce the system and check the replication status. —  Planet MySQL
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  1. from Latin quiescere, rest, keep quiet, from quies, rest, quiet: see quiet, n. Cf. acquiesce.
 

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