From Artifactory 7.41.3, Debian repositories include support for Debian Snapshots.A Debian Snapshot contains metadata of a fixed state of a local, remote or virtual Debian repository. Snapshots are immutable and contain a metadata folder for each specific distribution, including all metadata files, like RELEASES AND PACKAGES, and not the actual packages.
Snapshots can be used in the following scenarios:
As backups, allowing you to easily fall back to previous versions in case of package corruption due to dependency changes.
For release purposes, whereby the tested Packages file can be immutably saved and served.
In Artifactory, the Debian snapshots are saved by default under the $repoKey/snapshots/$tag subfolder within the Debian Repository and are created using a dedicated Create Debian Snapshot REST API.
In the following example, a Debian snapshot named “202203141800” is saved under the “deb-snapshot” local repository, containing “focal” distribution metadata.
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