November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
494 pages
14h 29m
English
Content preview from Mastering Proxmox - Third Edition
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KVM VM | Snapshot
Proxmox Snapshots is a way to roll back a virtual machine to a previous state. Although it provides similar protection to Proxmox Backup, it comes with speed. Proxmox Snapshots is extremely fast when compared to Proxmox Backup, thus allowing a user to take several snapshots a day. The following screenshot shows the Snapshots menu with a snapshot taken after a clean installation of the operating system in the virtual machine:
A common scenario where Snapshots can be used is when a software developer wants to test the software or available patches that need to be applied. They can take a snapshot, execute the program, and, ...