<p>Correct. Shutdown is faster but doesn't save app data. Hibernate will save things.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 5, 2011 9:28 PM, "David Tomaschik" <<a href="mailto:david@systemoverlord.com">david@systemoverlord.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On 11/05/2011 09:00 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
> try setting the system to hibernate when battery is low. Hibernate<br>
> uses the same power as system-off, i.e. none. Suspend is save to ram<br>
> which will croak when the power does fail.<br>
><br>
> To hibernate, you need swap = ram + used swap at the point of hibernate.<br>
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I believe that Ron's point was based on a belief that shut-down takes<br>
less time than hibernate, and is thus more likely to complete before<br>
your UPS dies. For his use case, this may be correct.<br>
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David<br>
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