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Glossary: Logs and Data Sources for Investigations

Snapshot

Also written: VM snapshot, cloud snapshot, storage snapshot

A quick record of a virtual machine's or storage volume's state at one moment, made without stopping the machine. Alex took an 'incident' snapshot before rolling the shop VM back to 'weekly'.

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