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+.. -*- mode: rst; fill-column: 78 -*-
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+.. _project_snapshots:
+
+***********************************
+NeuroDebian repository snapshotting
+***********************************
+
+The official Debian snapshotting service (http://snapshot.debian.org) allows
+obtaining any version of any software that was ever present in Debian, and
+provides a complete state of the Debian archive with all software versions
+corresponding to a specific date.  We are going to adopt this service to
+provide this functionality for the NeuroDebian repository itself, thus
+covering backports of our packages for all supported Debian and Ubuntu
+releases, as well as staging packages that have not been accepted into Debian,
+but may already be used by researchers.  Used in conjunction with the official
+Debian snapshotting repository, it would allow for the reconstruction of
+entire research environments or simply for installation of a particular
+previous version of a product of interest.
+
+
+.. _`Debian snapshotting service`: http://snapshot.debian.org/
+
+
+Status
+------
+
+We have adapted http://snapshot.debian.org implementation to snapshot
+NeuroDebian repository and snapshotting service was deployed on 2010-10-12.
+
+.. todo:: NeuroDebian snapshotting service
+
+   * Provide web-frontend to access existing snapshots within NeuroDebian
+     website.
+