My company has SAGE 50 US On-Premise, and plan to stop SAGE subscription

Questions:

1. My company has SAGE 50 US On-Premise, and plan to stop SAGE subscriptions, what SAGE's behavior to expect? will be Fully Operational?

Another Question:

2. My SAGE 50 US Server runs in a Virtual Machine on Vmware 6.5, what do you advise for the best way to backup this Server for future use?

Thank you in advance.