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You can also specify how long a snapshot should last.  If you will be using snapshots for backups, 
you can schedule the snapshot to last slightly longer than the expected duration of the backup.  
Having an active snapshot can affect the write performance to the ioSafe R4, so deactivating it when 
not needed may be advantageous in write-intensive environments. 
When a snapshot is taken, snapshots of shares appear in yo ur browse list alongside the original 
shares, except the snapshot share names have 
–snap
 appended to the original share names.  For 
example, a snapshot taken of share 
backup
 will be available as 
backup-snap
.