Definition of save point in English English dictionary
A location found in video games that allows the player to save their game, often found in non-overworld areas such as towns and dungeons, where saving anywhere is not allowed. Gameplay resumes from the save point used
The system performs savepoints at regular intervals It writes all changed pages held in the data cache to disk However, because the savepoint is carried out while the database is running, you cannot restart the database instance after the data restore process until you have also restored the log entries and/or the log backups that were made since the savepoint