The Metadata Manager provides a step-by-step procedure to assist you with creating a new snapshot, or overwriting an existing snapshot. In this procedure, you can describe the snapshot and specify its location, specify a full snapshot to include all metadata, or a custom snapshot to select specific metadata types, as well as any related metadata such as attributes, parents and children, and mapping.
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You must have administrator privileges to create and manage snapshots.
To create a new snapshot, or overwrite an existing snapshot:
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