--- title: Most Infrastructure Teams Only Start Caring About VM... description: Infrastructure teams often overlook VM snapshot recovery workflows until something breaks. VM snapshots in Civo provide fast rollback capabilities that... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/most-infrastructure-teams-only-start-caring-about-vm-snapshots-after-something-breaks-yfr64syvo twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Most Infrastructure Teams Only Start Caring About VM Snapshots After Something Breaks | daily.dev og:description: Infrastructure teams often overlook VM snapshot recovery workflows until something breaks. VM snapshots in Civo provide fast rollback capabilities that... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/most-infrastructure-teams-only-start-caring-about-vm-snapshots-after-something-breaks-yfr64syvo og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/yfR64syVo.png og:image:alt: Most Infrastructure Teams Only Start Caring About VM Snapshots After Something Breaks og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Most Infrastructure Teams Only Start Caring About VM Snapshots After Something Breaks **[Dev Squad](https://daily.dev/sources/devsquad)** · [@divyansh30](https://daily.dev/divyansh30) · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Infrastructure teams often overlook VM snapshot recovery workflows until something breaks. VM snapshots in Civo provide fast rollback capabilities that complement traditional backup strategies, reducing recovery time when deployments fail or system changes cause unexpected issues. Managing snapshots via CLI enables teams to build reliable recovery processes before incidents occur. ## Content Backups get attention. Recovery workflows usually don’t. One pattern that shows up often in infrastructure environments is teams thinking about recovery only after an update fails, a deployment goes wrong, or a system change creates unexpected problems. That’s where VM snapshots start becoming much more valuable than they initially look. Not because snapshots replace backup strategies. Because rollback speed matters. Being able to recover infrastructure quickly reduces recovery pain when things break. Especially once infrastructure grows and changes start happening every day. Creating snapshots is usually easy. Building recovery processes people actually trust during incidents is harder. I found this walkthrough useful because it explains how VM snapshots work in Civo, why they matter operationally, and how teams can manage them through the CLI: [https://www.kubeblogs.com/vm-snapshots-in-civo-why-they-matter-how-they-work-and-how-to-use-them-via-cli/](https://www.kubeblogs.com/vm-snapshots-in-civo-why-they-matter-how-they-work-and-how-to-use-them-via-cli/) ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Rethinking VM data protection in cloud-native environments](https://daily.dev/posts/rethinking-vm-data-protection-in-cloud-native-environments-apltm9jnh) · InfoWorld · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [AI agents need continuity, not just context](https://daily.dev/posts/ai-agents-need-continuity-not-just-context-ytamjkqsn) · Pulumi · 3 upvotes · 1 comments - [Kubernetes disaster recovery: Guidance from three reproducible failure scenarios](https://daily.dev/posts/kubernetes-disaster-recovery-guidance-from-three-reproducible-failure-scenarios-i6ictrsv0) · CNCF · 10 upvotes · 1 comments - [Filesystem snapshots supported on Vercel Sandboxes](https://daily.dev/posts/filesystem-snapshots-supported-on-vercel-sandboxes-uv3zx9otg) · Vercel · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#infrastructure](https://daily.dev/tags/infrastructure) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/most-infrastructure-teams-only-start-caring-about-vm-snapshots-after-something-breaks-yfr64syvo) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","mainEntityOfPage":"https://daily.dev/posts/most-infrastructure-teams-only-start-caring-about-vm-snapshots-after-something-breaks-yfr64syvo","headline":"Most Infrastructure Teams Only Start Caring About VM Snapshots After Something Breaks","text":"Infrastructure teams often overlook VM snapshot recovery workflows until something breaks. 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