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Registry Backup Beta
Shane:
v1.1.0 will be out Sunday.
I am working on 1.2.0 now with the new fall back feature and when I have it done I will post here to have you guys help test :-)
Also adding a new feature to 1.2.0
The fall back option will be under advanced settings. I am also adding the option to let a user tell the program which vss exe to use. The program pulls the OS info with WMI. if WMI isnt working it wont know which vss exe to run. If this happens a user can set it manually :-)
Shane
chris635:
Sounds good bud :tongue:
Chris
Ztruker:
How do we test it? I don't know how to make VSS fail off hand.
Hmmm, I suppose I could simply set VSS to disabled.
Ready and willing :tongue:
Shane:
Disabling it would be the simplest way.
I already have the code done for the reg api backup.
Draw backs are it can only backup the current user profile and the system core reg files but no other profiles. (Same as erunt)
I definitely like the VSS way since it gets them all, a true reg backup since every reg file on the system gets backed up. But at least this way having a fall back it is still helpful for users who have a bad VSS on their system.
This has gone faster than I thought and hope to have a test ready very soon. Biggest pain in the but is changing all the logging around and the wording to handle when it does the fall back.
Shane
Shane:
ok here we go v1.2.0 Beta
v1.1.0 goes out tomorrow on the site, this build has all those changes, so you get it a day early and help me test 1.2.0.
I made 1.2.0 just today and did some rough tests. I want to have it tested this whole next week and hopfully put it out a week from now for that Sunday release.
Lets see what you guys think :-)
Here is the change log for both 1.1.0 and 1.2.0
v1.2.0
Program now has an advanced settings section.
Program now has a fallback backup method if the volume shadow copy service fails on a system. It will use the Windows API to backup the core registry files and only the current user registry file. Volume shadow copy is the best way to get all registry files on the system, but now with the fallback method, people who don't have a working volume shadow copy are not left out.
Added new setting to control what VSS exe the program uses. The program uses WMI to pull the OS information. but if WMI isn't working correctly the information isn't pulled and the program doesn't know which vss exe to use. With this new setting you can control it if you have any trouble.
Code and log improvements.
v1.1.0
The program is now Terminal Server Aware. When you ran the program on a Windows server that had Terminal Services installed the Windows API returned the wrong path to the windows dir. This is now fixed.
Added more info to the log files showing what system variables the program pulled from the system.
Changed the way the program is complied, the program exe is now smaller.
Shane
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