Let say you have the power to clone your primary residence into your second, third, 100th backup house periodically – daily, weekly, monthly based on preference. Over a period of time you become the czar of many houses. In the event of an emergency, in a flash you can migrate to any of the backup houses. #Snapshotting was the unique action to literally take a snapshot of your entire virtual ecosystem and preserve it in a backup. And when there was a need to roll back to a previously backed up image, it was a quick action and done.”]
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