Some possible real world scenarios that could use Snapshot technology
Imagine you are working on an important project such as writing a book or a grant proposal, editing a video you shot during your vacation, recording a podcast, editing your photos, creating a presentation, writing code or anything else of significance. You could encounter a number of problems while doing so: 1. You create your work (say four paragraphs of a proposal or a video clip), and save it. You then edit and save it again (say, you delete a paragraph or remove some video footage). Then, for some reason, you want to compare your work and need to get back the paragraph you deleted or the video footage you removed. For your document, you may have maintained a manual version control and listed down every possible change, or most likely not done it at all. On the other hand, you might have set up a backup to be saved automatically. Retrieving your video editing project could be even more difficult. 2. You are working on your project and your computer battery suddenly dies, or your computer freezes and needs a reboot; you could suddenly lose work and in case you forgot to save it, you may have to start all over again. There could be a number of other problems that cause you to lose your work, resulting in wasted time, effort and frustration. So, what are your options? Storage systems such as Rockstor offer the Snapshots technology that is designed to solve problems like those described above. These offer not just a solution, but also allow you to create a strategy to proactively manage these issues before they arise.