If you look at the sample exclude list in the manuals and in the dsm.opt.smp
file in the installation directory, you will see that ...\system32\config\*
should be excluded.  These files are the registry which NT has exclusively
assigned.  The normal adsm setting is to dump the registry, using a NT API
call, to the folder %SystemDrive%:\adsm.sys

On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Gerrit van Zyl wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am not familiar with ADSM Cleint on NT.  There is a lot of files that
> are not being backed up as access is denied on these files.  Is there a
> way to back these files up:
>
> 12/06/1999 01:39:52 Retry # 1  Normal File-->           524,288
> \\zasrv01\c$\WINNT\system32\config\AppEvent.Evt [Sent]
> 12/06/1999 01:39:52 ANS1228E Sending of object
> '\\zasrv01\c$\WINNT\system32\config\default' failed
> 12/06/1999 01:39:52 ANS4007E Error processing
...