What is the purpose of "pm2 save"?

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user781486 picture user781486 · Mar 9, 2016 · Viewed 19.3k times · Source

I am using pm2 to manage my node.js processes. Very happy with it so far.

What is the purpose of $ pm2 save? What is the purpose of saving a process list? I don't quite understand from the documentation. https://github.com/Unitech/pm2

Answer

Rowan Freeman picture Rowan Freeman · Mar 9, 2016

pm2 save takes a snapshot of your currently running Node applications.

You can then restore these applications using pm2 resurrect.

This is useful because it means you don't have to manually restart each application when you restart pm2 (such as a machine reboot). Instead, you can just have a script that calls pm2 resurrect and it'll start up all the Node apps.

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