Platform LSF Administration Guide Version 6.2

Manually Checkpointing Jobs
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Manually Checkpointing Jobs
LSF provides the bchkpnt command to manually checkpoint jobs. LSF can only
perform a checkpoint for checkpointable jobs as described in “Making Jobs
Checkpointable” on page 401. For example, to checkpoint a job with job ID 123:
% bchkpnt 123
Job <123> is being checkpointed
Interactive jobs (bsub -I) cannot be checkpointed.
Checkpointing and killing a job
By default, after a job has been successfully checkpointed, it continues to run. Use the
bchkpnt -k command to kill the job after the checkpoint file has been created. Killing
the job ensures the job does not do any processing or I/O after the checkpoint. For
example, to checkpoint and kill a job with job ID 123:
% bchkpnt -k 123
Job <123> is being checkpointed