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Choosing Hyper-V Production Checkpoints for Application-Consistent Backups
Standard Hyper-V checkpoints capture memory state mid-transaction, risking data corruption. Production Checkpoints use guest VSS to quiesce applications before snapshotting storage only—delivering application-consistent backups on Windows Server 2016+ without VM downtime.