>How do I back up locked files under Windows NT? Specifically the
>c:\winnt\system32\config directory, which contains the SAM database and
>other important NT system files.

You don't...directly, that is.  As the B/A client manual says,
"These are system files that cannot be recovered without possibly
 corrupting the operating system."  The recommended include/exclude
list excludes them.

Check out that manual's discussion of backing up System Files,
and the use of the Backup Registry command.

  Richard Sims, BU