Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to transactions. In aspects, a consistency requester such as a shadow copy service requests to have a consistent view of a set of resources. In response, transactions that are in a problematic state are allowed to exit the problematic state while...http://www.google.com.au/patents/US7991971?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US7991971 - State management for transactional backup consistency
