November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
494 pages
14h 29m
English
A snapshot are a great way to preserve the state of a virtual machine. It is much faster than a full backup, since it does not copy all the data. A snapshot is not really a backup, in a way, and does not perform granular level backup. It captures the state at a point in time and allows rollback to that previous state. A snapshot can be really helpful when used in between full backups. The Take Snapshot option can be found under the Snapshots tabbed menu of the virtual machine. A newly installed VM without any snapshots will appear under the Snapshots menu, as shown in the following screenshot:

The actual snapshot creation ...
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