checkpoint

checkpoint
1. noun
a) A point or place where a check is performed, especially a point along a road or on a frontier where travellers are stopped for inspection

The travellers were stopped at the checkpoint.

b) a situation, often represented by a point in time, at which the state of a database system is known to be valid, and to which it can be returned to in the event of a crisis by using a combination of backups and logs; the data stored at this event

After the crash, we rolled back the database to the last checkpoint.

2. verb
To set a checkpoint

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