Automating an SSRS 2008 R2 Report Snapshots and run report with most recent data

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Published on 2011-01-13T17:41:23Z Indexed on 2011/01/13 17:55 UTC
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I would like to automate a report snapshot, but there is only an option to take a snapshot in the Report History Tab. All the resources I've found suggest I need to go to processing options and select "Render this report from a snapshot". But I don't want to do that - when I go to a report, I want to get the most recent data. However daily at midnight I'd like to take a snapshot and store it in the history in case I want to compare the reports as of midnight for the last few weeks.

Or am I doing this wrong and have to create a subscription instead?

Note: this is for an auditing database and has way to much data in to query a range with more than 1 day in it - reports are restricted as such. (1 day has over 1 million rows on it's own).

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