Snashots

[Isra0416]

Hello

I don't know how to explain this but, what is the best way to do a systematic naming scheme for snapshots. I just trying to be more organized i guess.

Thanks!!

[kwhornlcs]

It may depend on your use case.

In our environment most snapshots (patching and backups excluded) require some sort of ticket or service request - in order to standardize the naming, created a workflow/wizard in Orchestrator. Most snapshots now include the date (in YYYYMMDD format) along with the request number - in the naming convention. So naming looks something like: "20170227 - HEAT#123456". Makes things easier in reporting tools/scripts to know when (and most of the time why) the snapshot was taken.

[RajeevVCP4]

It depend how you are taking snapshot, is it from backup software or Manually , If it is creating by backup then it will take name auto by manually put vm name and date

[RAJ_RAJ]

Hi,

If you are planning to take manual snapshots , go with Date and what Action performing   Example #  winpatch_02/28/2017

For each backup software, it will use their default snapshot namess  like   below

Name                                     Description

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Avamar-1488267965...      Created by Avamar workorder