From the course: Windows Server 2012: Installation and Configuration
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Creating a snapshot of your virtual machine - Windows Server Tutorial
From the course: Windows Server 2012: Installation and Configuration
Creating a snapshot of your virtual machine
Now, we have gone ahead and created our installation and added our drivers to it. We want to go ahead and create a snapshot. Now, the purpose of a snapshot is to make sure that if something goes wrong later, we can always go back to a previous state that was undamaged. This will come in very helpful for this course because as we do changes to our system, we will want to go to the original state of the system and rather had to re-install everything from scratch, all we have to do is load a snapshot from a previous version of the virtual machine, and everything will be sent to where it was originally. The way we create a snapshot is click this Snapshots icon here. And this brings us to the Snapshot Manager screen. To create a snapshot, we go ahead and click this camera-looking icon. At this point, we need to go ahead and name our snapshot, and in this case, we want to go ahead and name our snapshot basic system. We're choosing basic system because that's descriptive of what the snapshot…