On Wed, 28 Apr 2010 07:07:43 +0200, Thomas Mueller <thomas AT chaschperli DOT 
ch>  
wrote:

> Am Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:50:30 -0400 schrieb jdb:
>
>> Is it possible to restore just the registry without restoring the entire
>> backup?  I have the VSS enabled in the Bacula config, [..]
>
> VSS does provide a consistent snapshot. IMHO the "VSS Writer" loglines
> just mean that the Service xyz was informed about a snapshot that will
> happen so that Service xyz can get into a consitent state on disk.
>
> this does not mean that anything is written an tape/volume.

Right, for W2K3 use ntbackup (heard it was not in W2K8 anymore, anyone  
know the replacement?) to back up the system state, which should include  
registry files. For this I added in my job definitions:

ClientRunBeforeJob = "if [%l]==[Full] (ntbackup backup systemstate /F  
c:\\systemstate.bkf)"
ClientRunAfterJob = "del c:\\systemstate.bkf"
ClientRunAfterJob = "del \"c:\\Documents and Settings\\Default User\\Local  
Settings\\Application Data\\Microsoft\\Windows  
NT\\NTBackup\\data\\backup*.log\""

This runs the commands on the server and does a compare, if backup level  
is full then does an ntbackup (so not on 'incremental==full' etc.) and  
deletes the temp files afterward (systemstate is overwritten but it takes  
up space, logs keep piling up otherwise). You need to have a few hundred  
MB free on C: for the systemstate.bkf file and the full backups take a few  
minutes longer.

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