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Source: Microsoft Support

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When you start a restored Virtual Machine (VM) that was backed up using Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) the VM generates the following message:

 

Event ID 6008, The previous system shutdown at time on <date> was unexpected

When the system is restored the Hyper-V VSS writer turns off and deletes the currently running VM. The backup application then places the files (configuration file, snapshot files, VHD files, etc) in the restore locations. Finally, the writer registers the restored configuration with Hyper-V and attaches the necessary VHD files. The writer does not interact with the OS in the VM at all in the entire restore phase.

This is the current expected behavior.

Due to the Guest OS being backed up while it was in the running state and the VM being restored in the off line state the value in bootstat.dat indicates an unexpected shutdown.

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