Comparisons & alternatives · Backup and cloning tools
Are Storage Studio's Restore Points the same as macOS local snapshots?
Short answer: No. macOS snapshots capture your whole disk. Restore Points save only Storage Studio's own records of what it moved, plus its settings, so they use almost no space and let you roll back the last batch of moves.
No — they protect different things. A macOS local snapshot is a point-in-time image of your whole disk that Time Machine uses; it can hold on to deleted files' space until it ages out.
A Storage Studio Restore Point protects only Storage Studio's own records: the list of what it moved and where, plus its settings and rules. Your files are never copied into one, which is why it uses almost no space. Storage Studio makes one automatically before each batch of moves, and Roll Back Last Batch uses it to return the most recently moved files safely, skipping anything it can't put back without overwriting.
Restore points live on your external drive, so plug it in to see them. See Restore Points.