An earlier revision of this document actually had you manually add the
extra x'0000' value, but it turns out to be unnecessary. The document has
since been revised with the simpler steps you cite below. When you click
"OK", Regedit automatically corrects the value so that it is properly
terminated.

Regards,

Andy

Andy Raibeck
IBM Software Group
Tivoli Storage Manager Client Product Development
Level 3 Team Lead
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"ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU> wrote on 12/11/2007
07:32:11 AM:

> This is mostly for Andy but any help is appreciated....
>
> We are having the "ANS1009W DRM FilesNotToBackup RC 13" error described
in
> the document:
>
> http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21243837
>
>
> Unfortunately, some of the recommendations make absolute no sense to me
or
> my Windows experts.
>
> HOW TO REPAIR THE REGISTRY KEY - METHOD 1
> 1. From the Windows desktop, click Start-->Run... In the Run dialog,
type
> regedit, then click OK. This will launch the registry editor.
>
> 2. Navigate to the following registry subkey:
>
> HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\
> SYSTEM\
> CurrentControlSet\
> Control\
> BackupRestore\
> FilesNotToBackup
>
> 3. In the right-hand pane of the registry editor, locate DRM.
Right-click
> on DRM and select Modify from the pop-up menu (alternatively,
double-click
> on DRM). The Edit Multi-String dialog will appear. Below is an example
of
> this dialog: <graphic omitted - only shows the DRM key value>
>
> 4. Do not change anything in the Value data window. Just click OK. Then
> select the File-->Exit menu item to close regedit.
>
> The last statement puzzles us.   Basically, once you navigate to this
> registry key, DO NOT CHANGE ANYTHING ???????
>
> How exactly does this fix anything ????????