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Conference decwet::networker

Title:	NetWorker
Notice:	kits - 12-14, problem reporting - 41.*, basics 1-100
Moderator:	DECWET::RANDALL.com::lenox

Created:	Thu Oct 10 1996
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	750
Total number of notes:	3361

349.0. "How to backup/restore win95 boot disk" by LUX06::GLOESENER () Fri Jan 24 1997 09:52

How do I restore the boot disk of Windows95 ?

I've tried it:

	- Backup the whole tree using W95 client to unix server

		R-+-C:\
                  |
                  +-D:\


	  When trying to compress the R the client states that this 
          represents the registry and cannot be compressed. But I leave
          it selected because I believed that this would backup the registry
          separately


	- I took a new disk, partitioned it installed Windows95 configured
          TCP/IP as before and installed Networker client for W95

	- Used the user interface to recover the whole tree again

Now the registry was corrupted when we tried to reboot. In fact it had nopw
1.2 Megs while the original one (we copied it also to floppy) only had
400K.

So my question is how to recover from a total crash ?

thanks,
Gast

P.S.: Client V4.2 Server V4.2A

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
349.1	have you read the disaster recovery section of the Win 95 doc's?	DECWET::EVANS	Be a Point Of Light!	`Fri Jan 24 1997 10:49`	5
	I may be asking a silly question, having never looked at those doc's myself but I know the Unix client/server have a section (in the Unix Addendum, for the server) on how to recover a system disk (it's known as a "Primary" disk) FWIW
349.2	Doc is for Windows NT only	LUX06::GLOESENER		`Fri Jan 24 1997 11:32`	6
	The problem here is that the helpfile and 'pdf' (acrobat) documents delivered with the client are for Windows NT client while the client is Windows95 (it is the Windows95 client kit). It states that their is e virtual drive called REGISTRY: on the same level than the physical partions, which is not the case under Windows95
349.3		DECWET::KOWALSKI	Time's not for saving	`Fri Jan 24 1997 13:33`	10
	There were some new directions for NT Registry recovery posted in this conference just a few days ago. You recover NT and W95 Registries in the same manner. The manuals on the CD-ROM are the NT manuals and may not apply in all cases to other Microsoft-based OS clients. Mark
349.4		DECWET::MORRIS	This mind left intentionally blank	`Fri Jan 24 1997 14:12`	4
	If there is a real problem here we can pass this along to Legato but this is a Legato kit and we don't do anything to it but put it in out pricebook and let our customers purchase it directly from us rather than Legato.
349.5	No REGISTRY:	LUX06::GLOESENER		`Sun Jan 26 1997 13:54`	5
	But the NT version of the client presents a virtual drive called REGISTRY: if I understand the manuals, which is not the case for Win95. So how can registry save & restore be the same ? Gast
349.6		DECWET::KOWALSKI	Time's not for saving	`Mon Jan 27 1997 08:36`	7
	I believe (but have not tried) that the essential piece of information here is that the logged in user can't recover their own registry entry. One user can recover all the other profiles, then logout, login using another profile, then recover the first account's profile. That's the way I understand it, anyway.
349.7	Win95 users are all guests ?	LUX06::GLOESENER		`Mon Jan 27 1997 09:40`	3
	As I understood from some notes I wrote earlier last year, there is no way to do a login from a Windows 95 client in a Unix NSR server. I.e. NSR on Digital Unix does see Win95 users as guests.