"Won't a transaction with appropriate serialization give you the same result, but without interrupting other users' ability to access the database during the snapshot process?"
Okay, this is where my nearly perfect ignorance comes to play--I don't really understand how a transaction with appropriate serialization would work for a snapshot. If other users are able to access the database, then the files are open, things are in a cache, and the snapshot won't be good for backup purposes--unless there is something here I'm missing (entirely possible!)
I thought that the actual server itself needs to be paused to do a good snap--much the same as in a backup scenario, just not taking quite so long (less than one second).
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