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The RTO of a snapshot can be small, and the RPO is also highly flexible with the use of rich policies and schedules. SnapshotIQ software can take read-only, point-in-time copies of any directory or subdirectory within OneFS.
OneFS Snapshots are highly scalable and typically take less than one second to create. They create little performance overhead, regardless of the level of activity of the file system, the size of the file system, or the size of the directory being copied. Also, only the changed blocks of a file are stored when updating the snapshots, thereby ensuring highly efficient snapshot storage utilization. User access to the available snapshots is through a /.snapshot hidden directory under each file system directory.
In EDA environments, snapshots can be configured as per following sample: