This is actually the fundamental concept behind time travel debugging; recording sufficient information to reconstruct past states of your system. The primary

This is actually the fundamental concept behind time travel debugging; recording sufficient information to reconstruct past states of your system. The primary difference is that time travel debugging solutions are more fully integrated because they will automatically insert exactly the necessary logging and they are integrated with interactive debugger state visualization tools so you do not need to do the state reconstruction manually/mentally, you can have the machine do it for you.