registry backup tools

  • Thread starter Thread starter John Smith
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After you open REGEDIT, just go to File/export. Save the backup with
whatever name you desire where you wish; just be sure to maintain the .reg
extension. To restore, locate this file where ever you saved it to, and
just double-click - it will automatically restore.
 
Hi John - Get Erunt here for all NT-based computers including XP:
http://home.t-online.de/home/lars.hederer/erunt/index.htm 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 restore.) (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.


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



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Regedit export/import is not meant to be used for full registry backups
because the import function <appends> the imported data to the existing
registry.

Much better to use ERUNT as has already been mentioned or use MS Backup and
backup <system state> which includes the registry files.

Rod
 
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