Restoring a Single Registry Key

[michaelw70]

Has anyone had to do this or know of a way? The system state is backed up. There was a problem with the server, and it lost ALL of the shares. To get these back I just need one registry key.

What would be the best way of going about getting one key back? I dont have a server that is identical in hardware to restore the registry to and pick out what I need either.

 

[605]

To my knowledge, this is not necessary as there is no such granularity.

 

[michaelw70]

Do you mean not possible or not necessary? It is very necessary as there are changes in the registry that they do not want overwritten with old reg settings. There is one key that keeps track of windows shares and I need a way to get that one key.

 

[605]

Ooops - a blackout. "necessary" should read "possible".

 

[Serbtastic]

What about a backup of the current reg, restore the previous one, copy the key to a temp location, then restore the current one?

NetWorker does not allow for restoring of a single reg key, as this is not supported by Microsoft.

 

[michaelw70]

If that is the only way to do it, I guess that is what I'll have to do. I was hoping there was a shortcut around.

 

[LGTObug]

There is a possibillity to backup the registry files but you must set the complete path of the directory a single saveset in the client. I've did this several times and for my needs it works.

I use it to extract single logon scripts such as single reg. keys.