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 > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
