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What is the difference between vmware snapshot and windows system restore?

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Question added by kp kiran
Date Posted: 2016/03/22
ubaiadullah Kamal Basha
by ubaiadullah Kamal Basha , Storage & System Administrator , Computer corner

 

Vmware snapshot state includes the virtual machine’s powered-on 7 off and suspended,data includes all of the files that make up the virtual machine. This includes disks, memory, and other devices,

Windows restore 

 

restore your computer's system files to an earlier point in time it not include the powered-on 7 off and suspended data

Avtar Singh
by Avtar Singh , System Engineer , DP World

It's better in terms of easy management, speed & functionally to use VMware level snapshot than guest OS level.

Talal Alkoshashi
by Talal Alkoshashi , Head of IT Department , Assas

the snapshot in vmware  is like taking an image for that Vm and the exact  statues for that Vm

so if there is App loaded in the ram for example when you retrieving that image it will be loaded to Vm ram

windows system restore will restore just the changes in the HDD and what it contain (registry,files...)

 

and there is so many differences  in both method 

 

this is in short 

 

 

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