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How to create snapshots on Linux

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linuxconfig.org; By Egidio Docile
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A snapshot is an image of a filesystem state at a specific point in time. Snapshots are really useful to “turn back time” and bring the system to a known good state if something goes wrong. At the time of writing, there are two main native ways we can create atomic snapshots on Linux: by using LVM (Logical Volume Manager) or by creating a BTRFS filesystem, which has snapshots as a built-in feature.

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