On Mon, 23 May 2005 19:21:59 -0400, Dre <xqizitdre-networker AT YAHOO.COM DOT 
AU>
wrote:

>I am trying to backup my laptop on to an external hard drive using
Networker
>7.2 on a Windows XP Media Centre Edition SP2 system. I am getting the
error:
>
>"Registry - Cannot save Registry key SOFTWARE: 0x000005aa"
>
>I have gone through the Legato Knowledgebase and have tried changing the
>nsrexecd service to run as Administrator however it has not helped. I am
>still getting this problem.
>
>I was running 7.1.1 prior to this and thought I would upgrade to 7.2 to see
>if the problem went away. On 7.1.1 the error message was:
>
>"Registry - Cannot save Registry key SOFTWARE: 0x00000006"
>
>I understand that running Networker server on Windows XP is probably not
>supported but would that be causing this problem or have I missed something
>else? Everything else is backing up perfectly and I have done many restore
>tests to make sure it is doing it properly. If it is only because of XP
that
>is causing this problem I accept this, but if it shouldnt be XP causing
this
>problem then I would be very happy to get a "working" albeit unsupported
system.
>
>Can anyone help me with this issue please????
>
>Thanks in Advance!
>Dre

As you say, XP Media Centre Edition is probably not supported. However:

Do you in fact need to back up the "SYSTEM STATE:\" save set at all? Would
you ever use your NetWorker backup to do the bare metal restore? A lot of
users would just rebuild the OS and restore the data from backup.

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