›Instance snapshot create, list, and get
5.2 · Lesson

Instance snapshot create, list, and get

Everything in your instance's database exists in exactly one place. A bad import, a careless DETACH DELETE, a migration that half-runs: any of them rewrites your only copy. A snapshot changes the math: it captures your instance's data at a moment in time, held safely apart from whatever happens to the live database afterward.

AuraNeo4j's fully managed cloud service. already takes snapshots for you on an automatic schedule. This lesson adds the on-demand snapshot, the one you take deliberately at the moment that matters: right before the risky data load, the schema migration, the bulk cleanup. The course's first lesson promised this move; here it is.