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satishchirala
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what is use of snapshot?

i had a  virtual machine with 1 snapshot and i want to make the same copy of  VM one  more using snapshot. is it possible

comp-1  Windows 2003 machine with snapshot

comp-2 Plain windows 2003 machine  ( i copied the snapshot file from comp-1 to comp-2 ) for getting the same environment

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AndreTheGiant
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Delta files have only the current state...

Without the base file you cannot make something useful.

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nkrishnan
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if you are looking to make another copy of VM in a perticular snapshot state. follow the below steps

Go to snapshot state and clone the VM in that perticular state, the clone VM will be in the same state of snapshot

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AndreTheGiant
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Another solution is use the vmkfstools command:

http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1028042

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satishchirala
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the same procedure we can do in command prompt also for copying the vm using

cp -arp <Source Folder>  <destionation folder>

my question is 1 lost the  all the file in Comp-1  vm except snapshot file, in that case can i recover my environment ?

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AndreTheGiant
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Delta files have only the current state...

Without the base file you cannot make something useful.

Andre

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athlon_crazy
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Without the source disk, VMware Tech also cannot help you.

http://www.no-x.org