title: Is there a way to pause a maven multi-module build and resume later?
body: <p>So this humungous package is trying to get installed on my VM for the past 5 hours. Its still going strong and looks like it has downloaded the entire Internet already. I need to shut my laptop down. Is there a command line tool to tell Maven to take a break, chill for some time, and resume from where it left later?</p>
  
  <p>Edit: I see a very subtle difference between this and the existing question that has been pointed out. I have been using the <code>-rf</code> flag to recover from a failed build for some time now. But I am not aware of the intricacies of the workings of Maven so I wasn't sure if it would be able to recover if I killed the mvn process from the command line (or if my laptop ran out of battery and was forced to shut down), even if the build process was going on smooth. Here's an analogy - I like to think of Maven as someone managing a complex set of tasks. If some task fails, the manager keeps note of that, halts all the operations and reports to the seniors and waits till his issue is fixed. I believe that as soon as maven finds out something has broken, it saves the state of the build process to be able to resume later. But what happens if someone comes and kills the manager. Or in the case of what I did, if I <code>kill -9</code> the maven process. Would maven be able to save a copy of the build state? I wasn't so sure. That's what I wanted to check</p>