Snapshot

In a general sense, a snapshot is a brief glimpse of something. It also has several specific technical meanings:

A snap shot in shooting is one that is aimed and fired quickly.
A snapshot is a photograph that is taken in a moment of opportunity.
A snapshot algorithm in distributed computing is one which copies a self-consistent image of the entire network to stable storage.
A snapshot in computer storage is a set of files and directories as they were some time in the past.
A snapshot in software development, similarly, is the view of a source code repository as it was at a particular time. It can also refer to an archival dump of the repository.
Snapshot is an optional module of the Laserfiche product which creates an image of an electronic file and stores it in a Laserfiche Repository

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