Adding New Checkpoint Kinds

As stated earlier, the checkpoint framework provides the interfaces needed to add a new checkpoint kind to an application. Adding a new checkpoint kind mainly consists of the following phases:
  • Specializing the checkpoint::CheckpointKind interface.

  • Instantiating and registering the specialized checkpoint::CheckpointKind.

  • Setting up the application version.

  • Adding code aimed at writing/reading checkpoints in the application.

  • Testing recovery and migration.