Restore

Restoring Windows Systems

Remote Storage Although the RSS databases are part of System State data, you restore Service Restore them manually. The RSS database must be restored offline. You can

provide pre- and post-exec scripts to stop and restart the service, or you can stop and restart it manually before and after the restore, respectively.

Select the following directories for restore:

<%SystemRoot%>\System32\RemoteStorage

<%SystemRoot%>\System32\NtmsData

Restoring DFS

Data Protector restores the configuration of the Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003 Distributed File System (DFS) as part of one of the following:

Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003 Registry, if the DFS is configured in a standalone mode.

Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003 Active Directory, if the DFS is configured in a domain mode.

 

Restoring Windows User Profiles and Event Logs

 

To restore the Windows User Profiles and Event Logs, expand the

 

CONFIGURATION object and select the items you want to restore.

User Profiles

Data Protector will not restore any files that are currently accessed. You

 

have to log off the system and stop all the services that are running

 

under the user account whose profiles you want to restore.

 

The restore session can be started from another system or by logging on

 

the restore target system as a different user.

Deleted User

A user profile can only be restored when its location is already defined on

Profiles

the system. Individual files of existing user profiles or deleted profiles

 

can be still restored as long as they exist among the system’s profiles.

 

Otherwise, you need to recreate them before restoring the files. Proceed

 

as follows:

 

1. Log on as the user whose profile you want to restore in order to create

 

a default user profile.

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