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NT User Registrey backup and resrore

1998-08-05 16:59:56
Subject: NT User Registrey backup and resrore
From: Allan Kelly <KellyJA AT BCRAIL DOT COM>
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 13:59:56 -0700
We are having problems with our bare metal restore tests: everything
seems to work except for the User part of the Registry on our NT
systems.

The level of Windows is NT 4.0 SP 3
The server is ADSM for NT 3.1.1.1
The ADSM NT client is 3.1.0.3

We typically run several services on our NT machines under accounts
other than SYSTEM and the files containing the User Registry for these
accounts (e.g., C:\WINNT\Profiles\SMSEXEC\NTUSER.DAT and NTUSER.DAT.LOG)
are not backed up because they are in use.  So they cannot be restored
and are lost in the case of a bare metal restore.  The Registry Backup
is running and saves what it says it should (we run Incremental backups
as a scheduled service under SYSTEM.)

How can we back up these parts of the User Registry and restore them as
needed?

TIA

Allan.