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How Back Up Using Saved State Works

Back up Using Saved State is a backup operation that places VMs into a saved state before the backup is performed. This state lets you perform point-in-time backups of guest operating systems. It is a stateful, data inconsistent backup. Back up Using Saved State presents the following limitations on VM backups:

• The virtual hard disk in the backup cannot be offline mounted to retrieve specific files.
• The applications in the VM will not be aware that a backup, a restore, or both occurred when you restore the backed up data.

Note: For more information about these limitations, see the Microsoft website.