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Re: BAre Metal Restore on NT V4

2015-10-04 18:02:07
Subject: Re: BAre Metal Restore on NT V4
From: INTERNET.OWNERAD at SNADGATE
To: Jerry Lawson at ASUPO
Date: 1/13/98 6:04PM
For NTUSER.DAT, I run a REGBACK command as part of the startup routine on the
machine.  I checked the dates on the files in adsm.sys - the information on
my id (adsm.sys\registry\lawsonj\users\lawsonj - machine name is lawsonj) was
1/8/98, which seems right, but for the admin id
(adsm.sys\registry\lawsonj\users\administrator) the date was 4/17/97.  This
is confusing, since I know I have logged on as the administrator since last
April, and even if I hadn't - ADSM registry info would be kept under my id,
not the admin.

As for why did I do this..... it wasn't my first choice.  I am having
difficulty doing an upgrade to cc:Mail 6.02 - it hangs during the install.
There was concern about this being because of the NTFS - cc:Mail V6 is a 16
bit app that attempts to write directly to the disk, so the thought was to
try to eliminate this as a cause of the problem.  BTW - it didn't work, I
tried to install again yesterday under FAT, but it failed again in the same
place  :-(

I intend to go back to NTFS shortly.

Jerry


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Subject: Re: BAre Metal Restore on NT V4
Author:  INTERNET.OWNERAD at SNADGATE
Date:    1/13/98 6:04 PM


Jerry,

  I did not notice in your steps any reference to restoring any users
NTUSER.DAT files.  If a user is logged on when you back up normally, then
you will also have to copy that NTUSER.DAT file from the c:\adsm.sys
subdirectory.

However, the settings for ADSM, Excel etc. seems like a bigger problem than
this.  What were the date stamps on the files in adsm.sys?

FMI, why did you format the partition as FAT instead of NTFS again?  There
is a remote possibility you can lose some security control of certain of
the files.  Remote, in this case, because few people place extra security
on the system drive.

Dan T.
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> From: Jerry Lawson <jlawson AT THEHARTFORD DOT COM>
> From: Jerry Lawson <jlawson AT THEHARTFORD DOT COM>
> To: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject: BAre Metal Restore on NT V4
> Date: Tuesday, January 13, 1998 1:40 PM
>
> Date:     January 13, 1998              Time: 10:18 AM
> From:     Jerry Lawson
>           The Hartford Insurance Group
> (860)  547-2960          jlawson AT thehartford DOT com
>
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> Yesterday I had the distinct joy and privilege of doing a bare metal
restore
> on my C: drive under NT V4 Workstation.  I had planned ahead, and had a
> repair partition built and tested, so there was no really excruciating
pain
> involved, but I have had some interesting problems with the registry
since
> then.
>
> Here is what I did:
>
> 1.  Booted from repair partition.
>
> 2.  Deleted old C: drive (NTFS format), and reformatted (as FAT) - size
did
> not change.
>
> 3.  Started ADSM (V3 client) and restored the entire C: drive.
>
> 4.  When the restore was complete, I copied the registry information from
the
> adsm.sys directory to the WINNT/SYSTEM32 directory as described in the
> redbook on bare metal restores.  (all 3 directories - all components
within
> the directories.
>
> 5.  I shut down the repair partition, and rebooted from the freshly
restored
> c: drive.  NT came up fine, but many of my preferences were gone.
>
>
> I should point out here that I have been running REGBACK each day as part
of
> the boot procedure.
>
> What was missing?   For example, all of the icons were back on my
desktop,
> but were rearranged.  The desktop customization (color, picture) were
gone.
> The screen definitions (1024 x 768) were there, but the fonts look
strange,
> Sound customization was also gone.  Applications like the ADSM
> Administrator's registry entries are also gone.  Microsoft Word V7 had
the
> same problem, as did XCEL.
>
> I did not expect this much lost information - Does anyone know if this is
> normal, or did I miss something in the restore (or backup) process?
>
>
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>                                                      Jerry
>                                                      Jerry
>
> Insanity is doing the same thing over and over..and expecting the results
to
> be different - Anon.
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