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, ...

In VMWare VSphere, the Virtual Machine disks Consolidation Needed status is displayed in the Summary section if leftover virtual disk files or snapshots are not merged with the base virtual disk file ...

Snapshot technologies have been around for a long time. Essentially, they let you quickly make online, disk-based copies of selected data sets that are easily accessed. With virtual computing becoming ...

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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 ...

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If VirtualBox powers your virtual machines, start taking advantage of the snapshot feature today. Virtual machines (VMs) revolutionized the data center. With the ability to easily spin up a machine ...

Storage snapshots minimize the risk of data loss, but you need to choose the right snapshot tool for the job Storage snapshots are among the best data protection features that any server or storage ...

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I would like to determine the space used by individual "snapshots" that I make using the popular rsync backup method.<BR><BR>I've determined how I would like to do this logically, but am not sure ...