snapshot

A reproduction of the virtual machine just as it was when you took the snapshot, including the state of the data on all the virtual machine's disks and whether the virtual machine was powered on, powered off or suspended. You can take spanshots of a virtual machine at any time and go to any snapshot at any time. You can take a snapshot when a virtual machine is powered on, powered off, or suspended. You can configure a virtual machine to exclude specified disks from snapshots.

A snapshot conserves the state of a virtual machine so that it can be moved back any time to an earlier, stable system state.

A snapshot preserves the virtual machine just as it was when you took that snapshot - including the state of the data on all the virtual machine's disks and whether the virtual machine was powered on, powered off, or suspended. VMware Workstation lets you take a snapshot of a virtual machine at any time and revert to that snapshot at any time.

Amazon Elastic Block Store creates snapshots or backups of your volumes and stores them in Amazon S3. You can use these snapshots as the starting point for new Amazon EBS volumes or to protect your data for long-term durability.

A Data ONTAP feature that creates an online, read-only copy of the entire file system--called a "snapshot"--that protects against accidental deletions or modifications of files without duplicating file contents.