One thing to abre in mind is that there is no such thing as System State 
under Windows NT, System State was introduced at Windows 2000.

So if you are backing up Windows NT you will have to make sure that the 
registry files/directories are backed. These may be found under 
WINNT/system32/config.

NBU

On Friday 10 Oct 2003 12:37 pm, Bob Grabbe wrote:
> I've never had a problem with the system_state with 4.5 Datacenter. I
> really only back up our domain controllers, and it's an AD domain. On
> the other hand, I've never had to restore it either, so the only
> evidence I have that it works is that the backups complete with no
> errors. System_State is one of the "reserved words" for the policies.
> Bob Grabbe
> Dominos Pizza LLC
> grabbeb AT dominos DOT com
>
> >>> "Lee, Kenneth" <Kenneth.Lee AT sbs.siemens DOT com> 10/9/03 5:58:18 PM
>
> I am a Unix guy but was given Windows NT to back up, so I am a little
> lost.
> I know that for W2K, you can used the system_state to backup the
> registry.
> How do you backup the registry on NT using NetBackup DataCenter
> because
> system_state does not work?
>
> Thanks,
> Ken
>
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