Hi
Thanks for your reponse, appreiate it, I'll try your suggestion and see
what can be done
When it comes to that config dir, there is a lot more files there, but
they are hidden, u need to deactivate the "Hid protected system files
.." or some such option under View->options
Sincerely /Mehrdad
On 2025-11-25 12:34, Arno Lehmann via Bacula-users wrote:
Hi Mehrdad,
Am 20.11.2025 um 16:54 schrieb Mehrdad Ravanbod:
Hi guys
I have encountered problem and was wondering if anyone knows how to
get around this
I am trying to have bacula do a backup on "Windows/system32/config/"
folder, this is a protected system folder where windows saves all the
files which has to do with the registry.
Have you had a look at the registry key
Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\BackupRestore\FilesNotToBackup
which is used to tell backup applications which file to *not* back up?
A similar setting called FilesNotToSnapshot might also be relevant.
If I recall correctly, we have some functionality to honor those
settings, although my (admittedly dim) recollection is that this was
only done with the VSS plugin (which should be Bacula Enterprise only).
Windows system restore can do this (it is a part of the restoration
points that get created) and since bacula uses the VSS writer I
thought that bacula should be able to read protected system files.
But apparemtly not, bacula sees the folder, sees the folder structure
and creates all the sub-folders in the backp, but none of actual
files are backed up.
Anyone knows why and how can this be fixed??
Btw, client is running windows 7 if that makes a diff, bacula-fd and
bacula-sd are installed on the client and both are running under
"local system account" so it should have enough privileges
I'm not having any Windows 7 system available to check, but on the
remaining Windows 10 host I'm currently using, the directory is rather
empty and does not, in fact, seem to contain any registry backups:
C:\Windows\System32\config>dir
Volume in Laufwerk C: hat keine Bezeichnung.
Volumeseriennummer: 1669-28AE
Verzeichnis von C:\Windows\System32\config
25.11.2025 09:27 <DIR> .
25.11.2025 09:27 <DIR> ..
21.11.2025 04:51 1.310.720 BBI
18.05.2020 21:26 28.672 BCD-Template
25.11.2025 09:27 41.418.752 components
21.11.2025 04:51 1.572.864 default
19.11.2025 02:32 10.596.352 drivers
15.02.2024 09:52 32.768 ELAM
07.12.2019 10:14 <DIR> Journal
07.12.2019 10:14 <DIR> RegBack
21.11.2025 04:51 262.144 sam
21.11.2025 04:51 65.536 security
21.11.2025 04:51 99.876.864 software
21.11.2025 04:51 22.282.240 system
03.07.2021 12:47 <DIR> systemprofile
15.10.2023 14:05 <DIR> TxR
13.05.2023 19:04 1.607 VSMIDK
11 Datei(en), 177.448.519 Bytes
6 Verzeichnis(se), 76.653.162.496 Bytes frei
C:\Windows\System32\config>tree /F
Auflistung der Ordnerpfade
Volumeseriennummer : 1669-28AE
C:.
│ BBI
│ BCD-Template
│ components
│ default
│ drivers
│ ELAM
│ sam
│ security
│ software
│ system
│ VSMIDK
│
├───Journal
├───RegBack
├───systemprofile
│ └───Contacts
└───TxR
Appreciate any and all advice
You could try to create a snapshot manually, mount it and check if the
files in question are actually included. I have no idea which tools
were available in Windows 7, but in general, once you have a snapshot
you can identify, a link to its "real" path might be enough:
mklink /d \mount \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy2
for example works on this host.
Good luck,
Arno
Sincerely /Mehrdad
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