November 22, 1999 04:22 PM

Backing Up and Restoring the System State

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Zubair Alexander
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A Windows 2000 (Win2K) computer contains several crucial system components that are essential to its successful operation. You should ensure that you properly back up these components and that you can successfully restore them if things go wrong. Win2K Backup refers to these components as the System State, which has a different meaning depending on whether you're working with Win2K Professional (Win2K Pro) or Win2K Server. For Win2K Pro, System State refers to the boot files, the COM+ Class Regi...

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very good

nitiket5/8/2006 9:06:43 AM

very very good and helpful

nitiket5/8/2006 9:05:53 AM

Yes I have backed up the system state and then burned it to CD later. I was able to blow away the system and then do a clean install and then restore the system state successfully for windows xp.

Temple Employee 6/16/2004 3:00:27 PM

Interesting. I've got a question: I came into work today and got a call about a user not being able to print. The end user's network attached printers had a status of 'unable to connect'. I checked the print server and all printers had disappeared. I rebooted the print server and magically the printers reappeared. Had the printers been gone for real, could I have made a full recovery by restoring an older copy of the system state? Would it be worth while?

Ben4/9/2004 10:28:12 AM

I am getting this error each time I try to backup the system state on my Windows 2000 server with active directory. How do I give it the system state the permission it need so backupexec will back it up?

Unable to attach to \\\\UDR1\\System?State.
Access is denied.

To Backup or Restore System State, Administrator privileges are required.
^ ^ ^ ^ ^
Unable to attach to \\\\UDR1\\System?State.
^ ^ ^ ^ ^

Michael A. Pollard 2/24/2004 4:08:12 PM

All I want to do is restore my computer to an earlier date.

mary j. meeker 12/8/2003 2:14:55 PM

What happens when you cannot get into windows to restore the system state. Is there an alternative way to restore the OS without having to reinstall to another directory?

Amin Nasir 11/5/2003 9:08:59 AM

Just what I was looking for except if the system crashes can I boot into safe mode and restore system state?

Jim Pickhardt 10/24/2003 8:06:07 PM

Has anyone restored Active Directory from Veritas backup of system state data?

Ivan8/12/2003 12:41:42 AM

How can I backup the system state with Veritas NetBackup?

Edwin Mora 10/16/2001 1:18:28 PM

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