VM - Clone "virt-clone" vs "snapshot"

I don’t understand the different of a snapshot vs clone.

I know the snapshot can easily be restored and can be saved as a running snapshot.

Do you export the snapshot or do you clone the vm to another drive.

I want a backup image of the vm but stored on another drive. I don’t want it to run on the other drive just a storage image backup.

So much reading online and it’s just sort of confusing me.

Cloning suggests I need to stop the vm and virt-clone.

snapshots don’t require a shutdown but how to copy the snapshot and is this actually a vm image ?

Please advise
Thanks

Knowing absolutely nothing about your setup, it would be impossible to advise.

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