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How Back Up Using Child Partition Snapshot Works

Back up Using Child Partition Snapshot is a backup operation that lets the VSS Writer take a snapshot of the data from the guest operating system in the VM. Backups of this type let you back up VMs that support VSS and have the Integration components installed and enabled. It is a stateless, data consistent backup.

Back up Using Child Partition Snapshot presents the following advantages on VM backups:

• You can offline mount the virtual hard disk from this backup to retrieve specific files.
• The VSS capable applications residing in the VM will detect that the backup or restore of the VM is taking place, and they will participate in that backup or restore process to ensure that the application data is consistent.

Note: For more information, see the Microsoft website.