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什么是快照（What is a snapshot） With the application of storage demand increase, user data protection needs online, online storage snapshot is one of the effective methods of data loss prevention equipment, more and more devices to support this function. More and more storage devices support snapshot functions. In these products, the advantages of snapshot technology are promoted. Some are snapshots and some occupy small space. So, what exactly is snapshot technology? What are the main types? Next, lets dig into it. Definition and function of snapshot SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association) on the snapshot (Snapshot) is defined as: a specified data set a complete copy of the copy is available, including the corresponding data at a point in time (a copy of the starting time point) of the image. A snapshot can be a copy of the data it represents, or it can be a duplicate of the data. In terms of specific technical details, a snapshot refers to a reference mark or pointer to data stored in a storage device. We can see that the snapshot is somewhat like a detailed catalog table, but it is treated by the computer as a full backup of the data. There are three basic types of snapshots: file based, subsystem based and volume based / virtualized, and the three are quite different. The market has been the emergence of practical tools can automatically generate these snapshots, such as a representative of the storage device based on NetApp file system, high low-end equipment using the common operating system, can realize the snapshot application; EVA, HP HDS and EMC universal storage platform for high-end array sub-system is implemented for snapshot Veritas; through the implementation of snapshot volume manager. The main role of snapshot is to be able to perform online data recovery. When the storage device has an application failure or file corruption, it can recover the data in time and restore the data to the state of time point generated by the snapshot. Another snapshot