Mixed NT and 2K sever job not working correctly

[maleyj]

I am running Arcserve 2000 fully patched running under Win 2K on a Compaq DL380 with 1 gig ram and 2 36 gig drives attached to a Compaq TL892 library with DLT 35/70 drives. My problem is with one job we run where we backup the majority of our environment. This job has a mix of Win2K and Win NT servers. When we looked at the job configuration we can see the Win 2K boxes and the associated registry session, we are not running Active Directory so we un-check the System State session, and when we add any of our NT servers to this job we can also select the seperate session for the registry. The problem comes when the job runs, we are not getting the registry session for the NT servers. We have looked on the CA web site and other places on the web, NT event logs, and Arcserve logs but have not come up with any kind of answer as to why the registry session is backed up on 2K but not on NT.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Cyklops]

How are your NT boxes selected ?? When you select an NT/2000 server completely (full green box on server level) the registry keys will be skipped by default. As you mentioned you deselect the system state (so the server is a half filled green box) the registry will be backed up.
You can configure this from the ARCserve server admin.
Keep in mind that these registry backups are meant to backup and restore just single registry keys and are NOT intended for recovering the complete registry.

regards

 

[maleyj]

Cyklops
Thanks for your prompt reply, maybe I'm wrong but I thought when you have a full green box on the selection screen all sessions would be backed up including a seperate session for the registry. If what you are saying is true then all I would have to do is go into the server tree and de-select say the TEMP folder and this would cause the registry session to activate. I am aware of the limitations of the registry backup since all I really need out of it are the Print key, Printers key, and the user shares. The reason for this is we just went through a Disaster Recovery test and found that after restoring and repairing the print server none of the printers where there. I researched the problem and found out when you export/save the PRINT key the PRINTERS subkey is not exported/saved so I was looking for a way to restore just those keys without having to restort to a script to save them off to a file before running the backup.