On 03/08/10 16:55, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> Am Mon, 08 Mar 2010 10:06:24 -0500 schrieb Phil Stracchino:
>> On 03/08/10 09:26, McCann, Brian wrote:
>>> Hi All.  I'm having a hard time finding a solution to this...but I'm
>>> sure there is one.  When all my desktops were on Windows XP, I used the
>>> "Client Run Before Job" command to run ntbackup to make a system state
>>> backup to grab the registry and all those other goodies.  For the life
>>> of me, I can't find the equivalent tool on Windows 7.  Has anyone
>>> figured this out yet?
>>
>> It's my understanding that this is no longer necessary if using VSS. Can
>> anyone confirm?
>
> IMHO the system state backup is still needed for a complete recovery.VSS
> itself is just a snapshot method to get a consistent state of files.

Surely by now there has to be some better way to JUST dump and restore
the registry.  This problem has existed ever since ... was it Windows
3.x or Windows 95?

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