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What is a VPS snapshot?

Short answer

A point-in-time image of your server's disk that you take manually and can restore or clone later.

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In more detail

Snapshots are ideal before upgrades. They are not a full backup strategy: they usually live in the same provider, sometimes in the same data center, as your server.