If you mean have the running server do a diff and then make a couple updates to bring itself into the state reflected by the snapshot, no. You can tell the server to use a snapshot when it launches. E.g. if you'd created snapshot 20110630-172258657standalone.xml you could: ./standalone.sh --server-config=20110630-172258657 I believe you only have to include enough of 20110630-172.... to uniquely identify the snapshot. Rich Sharples created a JIRA[1] last week to be able to trigger a server reload (a la what can be done with the :reload operation) while passing a snapshot name. Effect would be the reload would use the snapshot and not the current file. [1] https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-2347 On 11/4/11 11:20 AM, Ondřej Žižka wrote: -- Brian Stansberry Principal Software Engineer JBoss by Red Hat