NTBACKUP doesn't care about userprofiles - maybe important for services running under a useraccount with a special environment/registry.
(my experience until now is that you do not need ntbackup) Regards Stefan Holzwarth -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Robertson, G Louis (BearingPoint) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 20. März 2003 16:04 An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Betreff: Re: Win2000 Restore Jack, I have a presched .bat file that contains the following line: ntbackup backup systemstate /f "C:\Systemstate.bkf" /m copy This is the command line version of Microsoft Backup program usually found under Start:Programs:Accessories:System Tools:Backup . This command will start the MS Backup utility and only backup the systemstate (which contains all you registry information and associated files). I always overwrite the old file each time my incremental backup runs because of space limitations on my servers (the systemstate.bkf file is approximately 250 MB in size). For more information on the syntax of ntbackup type "ntbackup /?" at a command prompt. To restore I do the following: 1. Install temp windows (winnt directory) 2. Restore C drive (and other drives) 3. Restore system objects 4. Reboot 5. Start MS Backup (Start:Programs:Accessories:System Tools:Backup) and use the GUI to restore the system state from the systemstate.bkf file. If you need it I have a draft copy of our restore procedures that I can send you. Louis G Louis Robertson Senior Systems Analyst BearingPoint [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Coats, Jack [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 7:37 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Win2000 Restore Louis, Would you mind sharing the details of this step for some of us non-MS types? > -----Original Message----- > From: Robertson, G Louis (BearingPoint) > [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 3:36 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Win2000 Restore > > Mike, > > I add an additional step to my backups and restore. As part of my backup > I > run a presched that does an ntbackup of the systemstate to a directory I > know is backed up during archive and incremental backups. During a > restore > I add the additional step of restoring the systemstate via ntbackup after > the last reboot. > > Louis > **************************************************************************** ** The information in this email is confidential and may be legally privileged. Access to this email by anyone other than the intended addressee is unauthorized. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, any review, disclosure, copying, distribution, retention, or any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you are not the intended recipient, please reply to or forward a copy of this message to the sender and delete the message, any attachments, and any copies thereof from your system. **************************************************************************** **