Which of the following backup methods is MOST used by VM users?

Tape backups are a traditional physical backup medium that requires additional hardware and manual handling, making them impractical and rarely preferred in modern virtualized environments.

Cloning creates a full duplicate of a VM rather than a point-in-time checkpoint, consuming significantly more storage and time, making it less practical for routine backup use.

Image backups capture a full copy of a disk or system and are more commonly associated with physical machine backups; while usable for VMs, they are slower and more resource-intensive than snapshots.

A snapshot captures the exact state of a virtual machine's disk, memory, and configuration at a specific point in time using the hypervisor's built-in functionality. This makes them extremely fast to create and restore, requires no separate backup software or tape infrastructure, and allows VM users to roll back to a known-good state within seconds, which is why they are the most widely used backup method in VM environments.