Tivoli Storage Manager for Windows Backup-Archive Clients Installation and User's Guide

Backup Registry

The backup registry command backs up the Windows registry. The registry is a centralized database that contains information about hardware, applications, and operating system settings for each workstation on the network. On Windows 2000, XP, and .NET, this command is processed automatically as part of the SYSTEMOBJECT domain.

Use this command if you must back up the registry immediately.

Registry backups are copied to the adsm.sys directory under the root directory of the system drive. If you are using Windows Me, the directory is adsm98.sys. The registry is then copied to the server.

For windows NT and Me:

• Tivoli Storage Manager will not back up the copied registry files in the adsm.sys directory if you exclude these files in your include-exclude list.
• To back up all profiles in hkey_users, you can issue the command backup registry user curuser. The name of the profile will be the actual registry key with the following filename:

  adsm.sys\registry\machine\users\userprofiledir\
  S-1-5-21-8533442-1654749355-78804774-1152
  

  In the above example, machine is the name of the workstation on which the profiles reside and userprofiledir is the user profile directory specified in the registry for that user. This registry key also identifies the Security ID of the current user.

• If the Web client service is run in the context of the local system account, Restore User Profile is not available. This happens because there is no user profile to restore on a local system account.

For information on system objects that must be backed up together, see "Backing Up System Objects".

Supported Clients

This command is valid for all Windows clients.

Syntax

For Windows 2000, XP, Windows.NET

>>-BACKup REgistry---------------------------------------------><
 
 

For Windows NT

                        .-ENTIRE-.
>>-BACKup REgistry--+- -+--------+-----------+--+----------+---><
                    +- MACHINE-+- SAM------+-+  '- options-'
                    |          +- SECURITY-+ |
                    |          +- SOFTWARE-+ |
                    |          '- SYSTEM---' |
                    '- USER-+- CURUSER-+-----'
                            '- DEFAULT-'
 
 

For Windows Me

                        .-ENTIRE-.
>>-BACKup REgistry--+- -+--------+-----------+--+----------+---><
                    +- MACHINE-+- CONFIG---+-+  '- options-'
                    |          +- ENUM-----+ |
                    |          +- HARDWARE-+ |
                    |          +- NETWORK--+ |
                    |          +- SECURITY-+ |
                    |          +- SOFTWARE-+ |
                    |          '- SYSTEM---' |
                    '- USER-+----------+-----'
                            '- DEFAULT-'
 
 

Parameters

Note:

For Windows 2000, XP, Windows.NET there are no parameters. The backup registry command backs up the system registry hives listed in:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\
Control\hivelist

The following parameters are for Windows Me and Windows NT:

ENTIRE

Backs up all of the Machine and User hives listed below. This is the default.

MACHINE

Backs up one of the following machine root key hives (registry subkeys):

CONFIG

Valid for Windows Me only. Backs up the hive (hkey_local_machine\config subkey).

ENUM

Valid for Windows Me only. Backs up the hive (hkey_local_machine\enum subkey).

HARDWARE

Valid for Windows Me only. Backs up the hive (hkey_local_machine\hardware subkey).

NETWORK

Valid for Windows Me only. Backs up the hive (hkey_local_machine\network subkey).

SAM

Valid for Windows NT only. Backs up the Security Accounts Manager (SAM) hive (hkey_local_machine\sam subkey).

SECURITY

Backs up the security policy hive (hkey_local_machine\security subkey).

SOFTWARE

Backs up the local machine software configuration hive (hkey_local_machine\software subkey).

SYSTEM

Backs up the local machine system configuration hive (hkey_local_machine\system subkey).

USER

Backs up one of the following user root key hives (registry subkeys):

CURUSER

Valid for Windows NT only. Backs up the current (logged on) user profile.

DEFAULT

Backs up the default user profile hive (hkey_users\default subkey).

options

For information about common options that you can use with this command, see Chapter 9, Setting Processing Options.

Examples

Task

Backup the entire registry.

Command: backup reg entire

Task

Backup the Security Accounts Manager (SAM).

Command: backup reg machine sam