Snapshot Best Practices

Buurst recommends the best practice of creating a snapshot of your current machine image state before applying any updates. This should allow you to roll back to our previous SoftNAS configuration/version by restoring the snapshot if necessary. The below links will help you to create the required snapshots.

SoftNAS Snapshot Documentation

SoftNAS Recommended Best Practices for Maximum Data Protection

Snapshots in StorageCenter

Managing Snapshots

Location of Snapshot files

For VMware and Veeam:

https://www.veeam.com/documentation-guides-datasheets.html?ad=menu-resources

For Azure: 

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/backup/

For AWS: 
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/EBSSnapshots.html