System State backup is an option for each policy. The schedules you set up do not affect the backup for your Windows System State. on the computer on which the backup is scheduled to run. For example, a backup scheduled to begin at 10:00 p.m. All schedules are run based on your computer's time zone.

Unless the backup is continuous, only one backup will run during each interval. An interval can consist of one or more successive half-hours, and can span multiple days. Using a grid that consists of hours of the day and days of the week, you specify the intervals during which a backup runs for the policy. This article guides you through the process of editing a backup policy to change the backup schedule to meet your new needs. As time goes by, requirements change and there may come a time when you need to change the backup schedule. Under Windows, your backups run continuously by default, but you can change the policies to run under a different schedule. If you have multiple backup policies, each policy's schedule is independent of the other policies. You can use a different schedule for each policy. Backup runs according to a backup schedule set up in the backup policy.

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