... looking for a program that will backup and restore registry...

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Jim Byrd

Hi ooops - Curt's right on - here's a little more info: Get Erunt here for
all NT-based computers including XP:
http://home.t-online.de/home/lars.hederer/erunt/ I've set it up to take a
scheduled backup each night at 12:01AM on a weekly round-robin basis, and a
Monthly on the 1st of each month. See here for how to set that up:
http://home.t-online.de/home/lars.hederer/erunt/erunt.txt, and for some
useful information about this subject

This program is one of the best things around - saved my butt on many
occasions, and will also run very nicely from a DOS prompt (in case you've
done something that won't let you boot any more and need to revert to a
previous Registry) IF you're FAT32 OR have a DOS startup disk with NTFS
write drivers in an NTFS system. (There is also a way using the Recovery
Console to get back to being "bootable" even without separate DOS write NTFS
drivers, after which you can do a normal ERDNT restore. If you make your
backup into a folder inside your Windows or Winnt folder, you can restore at
a Recovery Console boot by copying the files from that ERDNT folder into the
system32\config one. After a good boot, then do another normal ERDNT
restore to also restore the user hives.) (BTW, it also includes a Registry
defragger program). Free, and very, very highly recommended.

FYI, quoting from the above document:

Note: The "Export registry" function in Regedit is USELESS (!) to make a
complete backup of the registry. Neither does it export the whole registry
(for example, no information from the "SECURITY" hive is saved), nor can the
exported file be used later to replace the current registry with the old
one. Instead, if you re-import the file, it is merged with the current
registry, leaving you with an absolute mess of old and new registry keys.

--
Please respond in the same thread.
Regards, Jim Byrd, MS-MVP



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stonecypher

Emergency Recovery Utility NT (ERUNT)
(Donationware)
Windows OS: Windows NT/2000/XP; Windows Server 2003
Languages: English and German, language pack for: Italian, Russian,
Brazilian Portuguese, French, Spanish Latin American, Polish.
Description: Erunt allows a complete backup and restore of the
Registry for Windows NT 4.0 and all following versions based on the
NT kernel (2000, XP)
Company: -- Author: Lars Hederer
Home Page, download v 1.1f (2004-08-26) (erunt-setup.exe) (793 KB);
(erunt.zip) (496 KB)
http://home.t-online.de/home/lars.hederer/erunt/
(desc. rev.: 2004-09-02)

New version released last week - they have it at snapfiles.

* Posted via http://www.sixfiles.com/forum
 
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Gary

ooops said:
I am looking for a simple program that can backup and restore windows
registry...
Click to expand...

For Win9x:

COP 2.2

http://www.bootdisk.com/cop.htm

----
NOTE: Create the bootable floppy to recover from Drive A. This has saved me
from a black screen with the message "unable to read Drive C" when any
program that is on Drive C is unaccessable at this point.
----

COP Windows 9X Registry And System File Management Utility

- Portable | Runs from C: or A:
- Easy Windows based install | Works from DOS also
- BACKS UP your Windows registry and system files
- Has RESTORE, VERIFY, and UNDO functions
- Includes FIX and OPTIMIZE Registry functions for Win98
- MRCLEAN removes temporary/internet/cache files and cookies
- Includes useful batch files to make editing system files easy
- Easy to use DOS based menu | Fun sounds
- Reports all actions as they happen | Gives you chance to abort
- Windows must installed in C:\Windows for COP to work
- FREEWARE

Sooner or later, your Windows registry and/or system files may
become corrupt and unrepairable. Rather than start your system
from scratch, use COP to restore your computer. It's also nice
to have a backup of the registry in a non-Windows folder. Run
COP before you install any new software or tweak any system
files.
 
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ooops

Hi:

I am looking for a simple program that can backup and restore windows
registry...

TIA
 
D

dadiOH

ooops said:
Hi:

I am looking for a simple program that can backup and restore
windows registry...
Click to expand...

No 3rd party app is needed...

Backup...
Run Windows Scanreg (you already have it)

Restore...
Boot to DOS
Scanreg /restore
Pick the one you want

Window's registry backups are stored in
C:\WINDOWS\SYSBCKUP
and are the cab files named rbxxx.cab where "xxx" is a three digit
number. By default, Windows keeps the four backups replacing the
oldest on the first successful boot each day.

If you want to make your own backup with Scanreg and not have it
replaced one way is to give it another name such as "My reg rbxxx.cab"
(or store it somewhere else). To restore it, move the existing
Windows backups to a folder somewhere, rename your file to the
"rbxxx.cab" convention, do the restore from DOS, then move back any of
the others you might want to keep. You need to do that because
scanreg /restore will only show you 4-5 possible backups.

You can edit the scanreg.ini file in the windows folder to include a
maximum of 99 registry backups. Change MaxBackupCopies=5 to 1 to any
number 1 - 99. Before editing, you have to remove the read only
attribute of the file, re-instating it afterward.

--

dadiOH
____________________________

dadiOH's dandies v3.05...
....a help file of info about MP3s, recording from
LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that.
Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico
 
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Build It Yourself

No 3rd party app is needed...

Backup...
Run Windows Scanreg (you already have it)

Restore...
Boot to DOS
Scanreg /restore
Pick the one you want

Window's registry backups are stored in
C:\WINDOWS\SYSBCKUP
and are the cab files named rbxxx.cab where "xxx" is a three digit
number. By default, Windows keeps the four backups replacing the
oldest on the first successful boot each day.

If you want to make your own backup with Scanreg and not have it
replaced one way is to give it another name such as "My reg rbxxx.cab"
(or store it somewhere else). To restore it, move the existing
Windows backups to a folder somewhere, rename your file to the
"rbxxx.cab" convention, do the restore from DOS, then move back any of
the others you might want to keep. You need to do that because
scanreg /restore will only show you 4-5 possible backups.

You can edit the scanreg.ini file in the windows folder to include a
maximum of 99 registry backups. Change MaxBackupCopies=5 to 1 to any
number 1 - 99. Before editing, you have to remove the read only
attribute of the file, re-instating it afterward.

--?

dadiOH
____________________________

dadiOH's dandies v3.05...
...a help file of info about MP3s, recording from
LP/cassette and tips & tricks on this and that.
Get it at http://mysite.verizon.net/xico
Click to expand...
Contents of rbxxx.cab is:
system.dat (registry)
system.ini
user.dat
win.ini
 
J

Jaxxim

["dadiOH"; Mon, 08 Nov 2004 16:01:14 GMT]
Run Windows Scanreg (you already have it)
Click to expand...

I'm on WinXP Home, and I apparently don't. I searched my Windows directory
and found nothing ...
 

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