{"id":281,"date":"2021-08-05T13:32:45","date_gmt":"2021-08-05T18:32:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/support.it.illinoisstate.edu\/kb\/?p=281"},"modified":"2025-04-23T10:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T15:07:11","slug":"how-to-snapshot-and-rollback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/support.it.illinoisstate.edu\/kb\/how-to-snapshot-and-rollback\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Snapshot and Rollback"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong>What is a snapshot? When should I use it? <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>A snapshot is a feature that lets you preserve the state of a virtual machine; so you can return to that state when needed. It is important that you have no more than 2 snapshots at any given time, as each snapshot will slow down the storage on this virtual machine. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong>How to Snapshot on Proxmox<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Video Tutorial <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/support.it.illinoisstate.edu\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/HTS.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Step 1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Go to Snapshot<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Step 2<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-normal-font-size\"><li>Shutdown your virtual machine. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Step 3<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-normal-font-size\"><li>Click take a Snapshot.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Step 4<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-normal-font-size\"><li>Name your Snapshot. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong>What is a Rollback <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Rollback returns the virtual machine to its state before you took the Snapshot. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\"><strong>How to Rollback Snapshots on Proxmox<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"> <strong>Video Tutorial  <\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/support.it.illinoisstate.edu\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/SNAP-2.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Step 1<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"has-normal-font-size\"><li>Click on Snapshot.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Step 2<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Click on desired Snapshot to Rollback.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Step 3<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Click Rollback. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is a snapshot? When should I use it? A snapshot is a feature that lets you preserve the state of a virtual machine; so you can return to that state when needed. It is important that you have no more than 2 snapshots at any given time, as each snapshot will slow down the storage on this virtual machine. How to Snapshot on Proxmox Video Tutorial Step 1 Go to Snapshot Step 2 Shutdown [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.it.illinoisstate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.it.illinoisstate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.it.illinoisstate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.it.illinoisstate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.it.illinoisstate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/support.it.illinoisstate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":431,"href":"https:\/\/support.it.illinoisstate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/281\/revisions\/431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.it.illinoisstate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.it.illinoisstate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.it.illinoisstate.edu\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}