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During the software development process it is often useful to preserve the exact state of the files in a project at a certain point in time. Freezepoints are snapshots of a project that enable you to later re-create the state of the project.
One way to preserve the state of the project is to make a copy of the project files using standard backup utilities. This method is effective but requires a large amount of time and storage resources. With Freezepointing, you preserve freezepoints quickly and simply, using a small amount of storage resource, because freezepoints are only a list of differences between the original files and the current version of the files. (See Creating a Freezepoint)
You can re-create the state of the project by extracting from the freezepoint file. You can extract an entire workspace, a complete set of files, or a subset of the files. (See Recovering Files From a Freezepoint File)
Note - Because a freezepoint file is only a list of differences, you must have the original workspace (or its parent or child) to extract from a freezepoint file.
You can configure Sun WorkShopTM TeamWare to create a freezepoint file every time you perform certain transactions, such as bringovers and putbacks. (See Automatically Generating Freezepoints)