Create Your Snapshot

If you’re coming from a programming background, then you may be familiar with the concept of snapshots. They’re the state of a system at a given time. They are often used to allow a program to quickly restore from backup.

Since you’re a management application that has just been deployed into production, you’re going to need to restore from backup. But—oh no! There isn’t a backup to restore from. So, you’re going to need to create one. You will create a snapshot for yourself, and this snapshot will be the basis on which you will begin your work ...