On Mon, 29 May 2006, Oscar Olsson wrote:

OO> We get the following error when trying to back up a windows hosts SYSTEM
OO> STATE:
OO> 
OO> Registry - Starting save
OO> 1-4-REGOW -s C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\SECURITY_NSR
OO> save: `C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\SECURITY_NSR' final f->offset = 45212.
OO> save: off 682928 len 45460 file #6 C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\SECURITY_NSR
OO> Registry - Cannot save Registry key SOFTWARE: 0x00000057
OO> Registry - Error saving
OO> save: RPC error: RPC cannot encode arguments (severity 5, number 1)
OO> save: save of SYSTEM STATE:\ to britt.qbranch.se failed
OO> save: prime14:SYSTEM STATE:\ size 712 KB, 6 file(s), took   0 min  56 sec
OO> save completion time:  5-29-06  3:32p
OO> 
OO> 
OO> Works with ntbackup. Fails with both nw 7.2.2 and the latest nw7.3 jumbo
OO> patch windows client versions on this host.
OO> 
OO> The file SECURITY_NSR is recreated by the backup if it has been removed, and
OO> the file permissions also seem to check out. Any ideas?

FYI we solved the problem. A 32-bit networker client was installed on 
64-bit windows. One could think that the 32-bit client should refuse to 
install itself on a 64-bit system since there is obviously an 
incompatibility problem, but no..

//Oscar

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