This is actually how we recommend our customers perform backups of our product. Crash-consistent snapshots of the entire VM's disk every so often. 100% of our i

This is actually how we recommend our customers perform backups of our product. Crash-consistent snapshots of the entire VM's disk every so often. 100% of our installs are in virtualized/cloud environments, so this is a very convenient and natural way to go about things. Some loss around the edges (and between snapshots) is understood and accepted by all. We've made it clear to our customers that by making this trade-off, we can vastly simplify operational costs around the system (i.e. we only need 1 self-contained VM per environment).