They are in directories off on c:\winnt\system32\config.  I copied the files
from the machine directory into c:\winnt\system32\config and it booted ok.

How do you run regrest?  I tried from another partition but it always tries
the restore from it home partition.  Do you boot to the restored partition
then restore?  I have tried several different ways with no luck except for
my manual way.

Rod

Prather, Wanda wrote:

> No, those  dsmc commands restore a copy of the registry backups from the
> c:\adsm.sys directory and  put them back into the
> c:\winnt\system32\config directory, and that is where they belong on our
> WinNT 4.0 systems.
> Worked fine for us.
>
> Where did they land when you did the restore?
>
>         ----------
>         From:   Rodney S. Richeson[SMTP:rricheson AT amxinc DOT com]
>         Sent:   Thursday, December 04, 1997 4:23 PM
>         To:     Prather, Wanda; ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
>         Subject:        Re: NT Registry restore
>
>         I used the exact steps in the bmr redbook, which was:
>
>         dsmc res c:\adsm.sys\registry\machine name\*.*
> c:\winnt\system32\config\
>
>         dsmc res c:\adsm.sys\registry\machine name\users\default
>         c:\winnt\system32\config\
>
>         dsmc res c:\adsm.sys\registry\machine name\users\user name\*.*
>         c:\winnt\system32\config\
>
>         Is there a seperate command that assembles these files into the
> registry?
>         If so the IBM redbook is incorrect..
>
>         Thanks,
>
>         Rod
>
>         Prather, Wanda wrote:
>
>         > Not sure I understand exactly what happened to you.
>         > Were you running your restore from an alternate partition?
>         > NT 4.0 or NT 3.5.1?
>         >
>         > The /adsm.sys directory is NOT the registry, it is a staging
> area used
>         > only by ADSM.
>         > When ADSM backs up the registry, it calls the REGBACK utility
> to create
>         > a sort of "export" or "logical" copy of the registry keys and
> stores
>         > them in c:\adsm.sys.
>         > Then it backs up those files from adsm.sys to the adsm server.
>         >
>         > When you restore files to c:\adsm.sys, you have just restored
> the
>         > "export" copy.
>         > Then you run DSMC REGREST, which invokes the REGREST utility,
> reads the
>         > files in c:\adsm.sys, and recreates the registry keys.
>         > Then you reboot.
>         >
>         > Does that explain any of what happened to you?
>         >
>         >
> ===============================================================
>         > Wanda Prather
>         > Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab
>         > 301-953-6000 X8769
>         > wanda_prather AT jhuapl DOT edu
>         >
>         > "Intelligence has much less practical application than you'd
> think."
>         >               - Scott Adams/Dilbert
>         >
> ===============================================================
>         >
>         >         ----------
>         >         From:   Rodney S. Richeson[SMTP:rricheson AT amxinc DOT com]
>         >         Sent:   Thursday, December 04, 1997 2:40 PM
>         >         To:     ADSM-L AT vm.marist DOT edu
>         >         Subject:        NT Registry restore
>         >
>         >         All;
>         >
>         >         I have run into a problem with the bare metal restore
> in
>         > restoring the
>         >         registry.  The book says to run the dsmc res
>         > c:\adsm.sys\registry.....
>         >         for the three different things to restore.  This seems
> to put
>         > the files
>         >         in incorrect dirctories.  I had to boot to a different
> partition
>         > to copy
>         >         the files from the directory they were restored into.
> One level
>         > off of
>         >         were they should have been.  My not understanding or
> ADSM
>         > restore
>         >         problems?
>         >
>         >         Rod Richeson
>         >         AMX Systems, Inc.
>         >         rricheson AT amxinc DOT com