Saving an instance of a virtual machine to disk in order to return to that point at a later time. Snapshots are taken for backup as well as for duplication to other servers. The content of memory, ...

Ok… as promised, I’m doing a follow up to my VS snapshots posting last week. In this posting I will go over the basic code snippets that are needed to construct ...

Disk snapshots are one of the best data-protection mechanisms available in the data center today. Whether it’s a SAN-based snapshot technology or one built into your file system or operating system, ...

Microsoft's Hyper-V snapshots feature is a convenience, not a backup replacement. But with different cloud vendors using the term "snapshots" in different ways, that's easy to forget. The public cloud ...

Simply put, a virtual machine snapshot is a state that has been saved. The virtualization program stores the VM’s current state along with all of its data when you take a snapshot. This is very ...

CommVault this week unveiled the latest version of its Simpana data protection software in order to make it more applicable to virtualized and to fast-growing storage environments. The new dedupe, ...

Here’s how you can revert to a virtual machine snapshot in VirtualBox for Windows. 1. Make sure your virtual machine is shut down. 2. Select your virtual machine from the list. 3. Go to the snapshots ...