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# Time Machine

The Time Machine tooling in ImpulseSync allows for users to capture data from a system at a point in time. Then later sync to any destination connector from that point in time capture. These captures are referred to as snapshots. 

There are a number of ways that Time Machine can be integrated into a users systems and used. 

Time Machine allows users to recover from system failures using it as a disaster recovery (DR) system.

Time Machine can be integrated into a users CI/CD process to maintain history and roll back to a previous version of a system. 


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