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From: srikanth.vgoud on 20 Aug 2007 08:41
On Aug 15, 8:03 pm, Craig <netburg...(a)REMOVEgmail.com> wrote:
> meerkat wrote:
> > "John Corliss" wrote:
> ...
>
> >> Good news is that it's incremental, bad news is that it doesn't do a
> >> genuine clone on my XP Home SP2 computer. This is because the following
> >> files couldn't be copied because of Error 32 - "The process cannot access
> >> the file because it is being used by another process":
>
> >> C:\Documents and Settings\(my user name)\ntuser.dat
> >> C:\Documents and Settings\(my user name)\Local Settings\Application
> >> Data\Microsoft\Windows\UsrClass.dat
> >> C:\Documents and Settings\NetworkService\NTUSER.DAT
> >> C:\Documents and Settings\NetworkService\Local Settings\Application
> >> Data\Microsoft\Windows\UsrClass.dat
> >> C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\EventCache\(some CLSID).bin
> >> C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\default
> >> C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\SAM
> >> C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\SECURITY
> >> C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\software
> >> C:\WINDOWS\system32\config\system
>
> >> This failure to copy the registry, AFAIK, would mean that the backup
> >> partition would be unable to start Windows, at least without more than the
> >> default registry settings.
>
> >> Please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
>
> > You`re correct John.
>
> Let's not give up the ghost just yet ... NTOS distributions, since at
> least NT 4.0, have included a system state back up utility. If you're
> able to manipulate the files in /that/ backup (ie uncompress & dump to
> sub-dir) then Karen's can grab it.
>
> So, it'd look like this:
>
> 1) run the system state backup proggie for your flavor of NTOS
> 2) extract files
> 3) run Karen's to exclude open system state files and include archived
> system state files.
>
> Hopefully this could be automated w/scheduling services & autoHotKey (or
> whatever that's called). Btw, stepping back a bit, have you contacted
> Karen about this? I understand she's responsive ... in between
> point-releases that is <grin>.
>
> -Craig- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -


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