Abstract:Periodical snapshots also called persistent disk snapshots are an essential feature associated with every cloud-hosted virtual instance, which minimizes the risk of unexpected data loss in the server and unavailability issues. The conventional method of creating a snapshot of a production-level server is done by temporarily disabling write access to data during the backup, either by stopping the accessing applications or by using the locking API provided by the operating system to enforce exclusive read access… Show more
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