Windows operating systems

Restoring Windows system state

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The Microsoft Volume Shadowcopy Service (VSS) is supported on Windows backup-archive clients. The client uses VSS to restore the system state. The system state restore function is deprecated for online system state restore operations.

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You can no longer restore the system state on a system that is still online. Instead, use the ASR-based recovery method to restore the system state in offline Windows PE mode. For more information, see Recovering Microsoft Windows systems using the IBM® Storage Protect Backup-Archive Client.
Note: If you try to restore the system state with the dsmc restore systemstate command, from the backup-archive client GUI, or from the web client, the following message is displayed:
ANS5189E Online SystemState restore has been deprecated. Please use offline
    WinPE method for performing system state restore.