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Maintenance Mode Limitations

The following table lists limitations that are imposed right after an object storage repository is put into maintenance mode.

Activity	Restriction Level	Related Topic
Data transfer / Synchronization		Data Transfer
Move to capacity tier		Moving to Capacity Tier
Copy to performance tier		Copying to Performance Tier
Restore		Data Restore
Export as .vbk		Exporting Backups
Removal of backups from configuration		Removing from Configuration
Retention policies	Synchronization is skipped for backup chains located in object storage repositories. Obsolete restore points will only be removed from a backup chain of your extents.	Retention Policy
Removal of object storage repositories		Removing Object Storage Repository
Removal of backups or VMs created with the Per-VM method		Removing Backups from Object Storage Repository
Removal of a VM from a single storage	Synchronization is skipped for backup chains located in object storage repositories. A virtual machine will only be removed from a backup chain of your extents.	Deleting from Disk
Modifications of object storage repositories settings		Editing Settings of Object Storage Repository
Modifications of capacity tier settings		Add Capacity Tier, Excluding Capacity Tier from Scale-Out Repositories
Scale-out backup repository rescan	Synchronization is skipped for object storage repositories.	Rescanning Scale-Out Repositories
Removal of a scale-out backup repository from the configuration database		Removing Scale-Out Backup Repositories
Evacuation of storage or indexes from on-premise extents		Evacuating Backups from Performance Tiers