Nicholas Hall wrote at about 18:46:35 -0600 on Monday, November 24, 2008:
 > On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 4:41 PM, Jeffrey J. Kosowsky
 > <backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org>wrote:
 > 
 > > Nicholas Hall wrote at about 15:27:48 -0600 on Monday, November 24, 2008:
 > >  > On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Les Mikesell <les AT futuresource DOT 
 > > com>
 > > wrote:
 > >  >
 > >  > > The registry is another tricky part.  You may need parts relating to
 > >  > > what you are restoring, but if you aren't going back to exactly the
 > > same
 > >  > > machine/environment you may not want all of it.
 > >  > >
 > >  >
 > >  > I've got all my win32 boxes doing a local NTbackup to disk which
 > > BackupPC
 > >  > picks up.  It's kinda a pain but works.
 > >  >
 > > What do you mean by that? I'm not sure I understand how that is
 > > different. Please explain if you don't mind.
 > >
 > 
 > Referring to backing up the registry.  NTBackup which comes standard on
 > Windows can backup "System State" via VSS which includes the registry and
 > also system32 I believe.  NTBackup dumps out a .bkf file which I have
 > BackupPC grabbing.

OK. I think I am beginning to understand (I don't know much about
Windows).
Could you just clarify that I am understanding correctly ;)

- It seems like all the files that I wasn't able to back up because
  they are "locked" are actually critical things like the Registry
  (i.e. NTUSER.DAT)
- NTBackup uses VSS to dump these locked files to a readable file
- You then use BackupPC to backup that file.

Is there any reason I couldn't add a command to run NTBackup to my
"DumpPreUserCmd" and have it write out the backup file to a fixed
place on my windows machine?
Also, I assume I could just write the file to the Windows machine
itself so that BackupPC would pick it up automatically.

Am I understanding this correctly?
Thanks

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