I recently worked on something where a design requirement was to build a good snapshot restore option but not to use Time Machine backups. You can capture a snapshot of a Mac without enabling Time Machine. To do so, you’d still use the same binary as you would with Time Machine, /usr/bin/tmutil. To do so, simply use the snapshot verb as follows: /usr/bin/tmutil snapshot Once you’ve run that, you get output similar to the following: Created local snapshot with date: 2019-04-12-110248 Now you have a snapshot that can be used to restore a Mac using the steps shown in this article: https://maclovin.org/blog-native/2017/restoring-from-a-snapshot-with-apfs. You can make a snapshot at the provisioning…