Backup the registry?

[Susan]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309340/


Back up the whole registry
To back up the whole registry, use the Backup utility to back up the system
state. The system state includes the registry, the COM+ Class Registration
Database, and your boot files. For additional information about using the
Backup utility to back up the system state, click the following article
numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
308422 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308422/) How to use Backup to back
up files and folders on your computer in Windows XP
320820 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/320820/) How to use the Backup
utility to back up files and folders in Windows XP Home Edition
326216 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326216/) How to use the Backup
feature to back up and restore data in Windows Server 2003

How do you instruct someone to back-up the whole registry with Windows XP?
If you use the Backup utility, you have 4 options
1)My Documents and settings
2)Everyones's
3)All information
4)Let me choose
I would assume you would choose 4) Let me choose

Then is it the System State that you choose? That's it!

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How would you determine whether person had 32 bit windows or 64 bit windows?

 

[jel183\(UK\)]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309340/


Back up the whole registry
To back up the whole registry, use the Backup utility to back up the
system state. The system state includes the registry, the COM+ Class
Registration Database, and your boot files. For additional information
about using the Backup utility to back up the system state, click the
following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge
Base:
308422 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308422/) How to use Backup to back
up files and folders on your computer in Windows XP
320820 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/320820/) How to use the Backup
utility to back up files and folders in Windows XP Home Edition
326216 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326216/) How to use the Backup
feature to back up and restore data in Windows Server 2003

How do you instruct someone to back-up the whole registry with Windows XP?
If you use the Backup utility, you have 4 options
1)My Documents and settings
2)Everyones's
3)All information
4)Let me choose
I would assume you would choose 4) Let me choose

Then is it the System State that you choose? That's it!

==========================
How would you determine whether person had 32 bit windows or 64 bit
windows?

Download and install ERUNT and use for Registry backup and optimization

http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/

 

[Anna]

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309340/


Back up the whole registry
To back up the whole registry, use the Backup utility to back up the
system state. The system state includes the registry, the COM+ Class
Registration Database, and your boot files. For additional information
about using the Backup utility to back up the system state, click the
following article numbers to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge
Base:
308422 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/308422/) How to use Backup to back
up files and folders on your computer in Windows XP
320820 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/320820/) How to use the Backup
utility to back up files and folders in Windows XP Home Edition
326216 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/326216/) How to use the Backup
feature to back up and restore data in Windows Server 2003

How do you instruct someone to back-up the whole registry with Windows XP?
If you use the Backup utility, you have 4 options
1)My Documents and settings
2)Everyones's
3)All information
4)Let me choose
I would assume you would choose 4) Let me choose

Then is it the System State that you choose? That's it!

==========================
How would you determine whether person had 32 bit windows or 64 bit
windows?

Susan:
I'm not entirely clear whether you're the person raising this question or
whether you're responding to someone who did, but let me make the following
comments to whomever raised this issue, or others who might be contemplating
a backup system...

Seriously consider a disk imaging program such as Symantec's Norton Ghost or
Acronis True Image or Casper XP (and there are others), to "clone" the
contents of your day-to-day working HD to another HD, either internal or
external. For most users, this is an ideal backup system and, in my view,
preferable to the XP backup utility as a day-in day-out backup system.

The enormous advantage of a disk imaging program to directly clone the
contents of your primary HD to another HD is that you now have, for all
practical purposes, an exact duplicate of your source HD. So that in the
event your working HD becomes mechanically/electronically defective or the
OS system files become so corrupted that the drive is no longer functional,
you have a perfectly "good" clone of that drive at your fingertips which you
can use for restoration purposes. And if the HD that was the recipient of
the clone is another internal HD, that drive is bootable. (Should you be
using a USB or Firewire external HD for the recipient of the clone, that
device will not be bootable but it's contents can also be cloned back to a
HD for restoration purposes).

Think of the advantages of this. Your cloned drive does not *only* contain a
copy of your registry and system files as would be the case with the XP
backup utility, but now *all* your programs & applications, configuration
settings, your created data - in short, *everything* that's on your source
disk is, in effect, copied over to your destination drive. What could be
better in terms of a backup system?

Another advantage of a disk imaging program vis-a-vis the XP backup utility
is speed. The XP utility is tortuously slow even considering its limitations
as noted above. Depending upon your processor speed and HD performance, you
can figure on a data transfer rate with a "modern" computer anywhere from
800 MB/min to nearly 2 GB/min. Transfer speed is much slower when cloning to
an external device, e.g., a USB external HD. There it will be in the order
of 800 MB/min. In any case, transfer speed is much faster than the XP
utility.

Using these disk imaging programs to directly clone the contents of one
drive to another drive is relatively simple & straightforward.

It is true than an additional expense will be involved for the disk imaging
program and should you not currently have one - another internal or external
HD. (We do not recommend using a single HD for cloning purposes). But I
guarantee you it's money well spent. You'll never regret it.
Anna

 

[Rock]

Susan wrote:

How do you instruct someone to back-up the whole registry with Windows XP?
If you use the Backup utility, you have 4 options
1)My Documents and settings
2)Everyones's
3)All information
4)Let me choose
I would assume you would choose 4) Let me choose

Then is it the System State that you choose? That's it!

==========================
How would you determine whether person had 32 bit windows or 64 bit windows?

The best program for this is ERUNT. It makes backup of the registry
easy and automated if run through scheduled tasks, and recovery is
straightforward. Read the documentation.

http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/
http://www.larshederer.homepage.t-online.de/erunt/erunt.txt

Installing and Using ERUNT
http://www.silentrunners.org/sr_eruntuse.html
http://www.winxptutor.com/regback.htm