Concepts

Snapshot

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snapshotproposed

A point-in-time image of a box, its memory and its disk, that new boxes fork from.

When Vakna takes one

vakna snapshot <box> takes one on request. vakna fork takes one first if the box has none since its last change.

sh
vakna snapshot api
prints snapshot snp_eu1a_z7a8b9c0 taken 0.19s

What a snapshot holds

The box's memory and its disk, at one moment. Processes that were running in the box are running in every box forked from it.

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