Phil: We tested a full restore for one of our NT Clients, and opted not
to restore the registry. Though slow, everything seemed to work fine
without restoring the registry (We reinstalled NT instead of restoring,
figured it would be faster)

IBM has a redbook on bare metal restore, check out their sight, parts of
this book are available online.

Phil Chissell wrote:
>
> I am running ADSM Server 2.1.0.13 and Client 2.1.06 on NT.
>
> My problem is:-
>
> - I performed a full backup (including the registry) of an NT server via ADSM.
>
> - I then trashed the box, re-installed NT and then the ADSM client.
>
> - I restored all the files from the ADSM server.
>
> - I then restored the (full) registry.
>
> - I reboot the machine but it hangs
>
> I have repeated the above procedure many times but I always get the same
> result.  My initial reaction is that I probably shouldn't be performing a
> full restore of the registry.  Does anybody know what the procedure is for
> fully restoring an NT client via ADSM?
>
> Regards
>
> Phil