I feel awfully silly for not noticing this sooner, but
regcopy is leaving a record of the failure in the system event log.
It finds a user profile mentioned in the registry that no longer
lives on the local disk. I removed this profile pointer from the
registry and the problem went away.
Regcopy says:
SaveThisUserRegistry(S-1-5-21-251729357-1981883218-1846952604-500,
%SystemRoot%\Profiles\administrator.000, c:\winnt\configbk, 1) failed
in SaveUsersRegistry., %s, %s, %d) failed in SaveUsersRegistry.
This really means that HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows
NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList\S-1-5-21-251729357-1981883218-1846952604
-500 is not a valid profile. Delete the S-* key and the problem goes
away. Specifically, if you read the keys, it finds
"ProfileImagePath" to be a path in your %SYSTEM ROOT%\Profiles\
directory that doesn't have a user.dat file.
>>I get a failure while trying to copy the registry on a few of my NT
>>machines. However, it just says "Registry Copy Unsuccessful". How
>>can I troubleshoot this and get my registry to back up? I have one NT
>>Workstation doing this, and one NT Terminal Server. They share nothing
>>in common that I'm aware of.
>
>I have this problem, but I also know that in my case the registry is
>already corrupt! :-(
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