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WHAT IS SNAP SHOT?

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Question added by Sayed Huzaifa , Devops Lead , Telus
Date Posted: 2014/01/11
Neeraj Sharma
by Neeraj Sharma , business unit manager , logicom

Snapshot is a term coined by NetApp for the point in time copy of the system state and it has been widely used as a data protection feature in NetApp systems.

 

Today most of the storage vendors support snapshots

Dariusz Duma
by Dariusz Duma , System Engineer , Cisco

Commonly it means saved actual state of system/partition/memory/repositories, and so on. Snapshot of system usually means backup of entire system.