Your problem must be somewhere else.
Please check:
1. Is the backup of the registry done correctly (is the adsm.sys dir created) ?
2. Is the user who started the backup with REGBACK ENTIRE a local administrator
of the machine ?

For the REGREST there is no need for a repair partition. You can start a
partial or 'entire' restore over the running system, while a user is logged on.
Since the backup and restore of the NT registry is done over the NT API, there
is need to change the Copy Serialization. REGREST works with static and dynamic.
(see my test:
(
dsmc> regrest entire
Restore function invoked.

ANS1247I Waiting for files from the server...
Restoring               0 E:\ADSM.SYS\REGISTRY\ARTEMIS\MACHINE [Done]
Restoring               0 E:\ADSM.SYS\REGISTRY\ARTEMIS\USERS [Done]
Restoring               0 E:\ADSM.SYS\REGISTRY\ARTEMIS\USERS\BFRIESS
[Done]
Restoring          20,480 E:\ADSM.SYS\REGISTRY\ARTEMIS\MACHINE\Sam
[Done]
Restoring          28,672 E:\ADSM.SYS\REGISTRY\ARTEMIS\MACHINE\Security
[Done]
Restoring       2,224,128 E:\ADSM.SYS\REGISTRY\ARTEMIS\MACHINE\Software
[Done]
Restoring       1,036,288 E:\ADSM.SYS\REGISTRY\ARTEMIS\MACHINE\System
[Done]
Restoring          94,208 E:\ADSM.SYS\REGISTRY\ARTEMIS\USERS\Default
[Done]
Restoring         507,904 E:\ADSM.SYS\REGISTRY\ARTEMIS\USERS\BFRIESS\bfrie000
[Done]
Restoring              45 E:\ADSM.SYS\REGISTRY\ARTEMIS\USERS\BFRIESS\bfrie000.Ke
y [Done]

Restore processing finished.

Registry Restore Function Invoked.

   Replace Registry Key: RootKey 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE', SubKey 'SOFTWARE'


   Replace Registry Key: RootKey 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE', SubKey 'SYSTEM'


   Replace Registry Key: RootKey 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE', SubKey 'SECURITY'


   Replace Registry Key: RootKey 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE', SubKey 'SAM'


   Replace Registry Key: RootKey 'HKEY_USERS', SubKey '.DEFAULT'


   Replace Registry Key: RootKey 'HKEY_USERS'
                         SubKey  'S-1-5-21-1071522455-238628941-1928362250-1000'


ANS1429I Registry Restore function completed successfully.
ANS1430I The machine must be rebooted for the changes to take effect

Total number of objects restored:        10
Total number of objects failed:           0
Total number of bytes transferred:     1.45 MB
Data transfer time:                    7.34 sec
Network data transfer rate:          202.56 KB/sec
Aggregate data transfer rate:        100.61 KB/sec
Elapsed processing time:           00:00:14
dsmc>
))

Your related question is solved as well, if you are using the REGREST ENTIRE.

Best Regards / Freundliche Gruesse / Amicalement
Bruno Friess

Advanced Technical Support  ADSM




ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU on 08/06/98 09:20:47 PM
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Subject: Re: NT User Registrey backup and resrore


The process in the RedBooks you indicated below require that you to run the
ADSM client from the "repair" partition.  What if a repair is not available?
Is it possible to restore the ENTIRE registry while logged onto the system
that you want to restore the registry to?  Whenever I try a REGREST ENTIRE,
I get error message:

ANS1436E Error Occurred replacing the Key.
ANS1431E Registry Restore Function Failed

From the GUI:

ANS7650E An error occurred replacing the registry key
ANS7660E Registry activation failed

What about the setting on the ADSM server for "Copy Serialization".  Should
it be set to "Shared Dynamic" to ensure that the entire registry is backed
up?

Another related question:  What about when employing the DRM Disk Image Dump
and Restore process?  Because it would be impossible to maintain current
disk images, you must restore the "system" partition from the incremental
adsm backup.  How can you make sure that the latest registry settings are
restored, without a "repair" partition.

Thanks for any help,

Greg Heis