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Re: file accessibility and copying/archive/...
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008, Brian Dessent wrote:
> Hugh Sasse wrote:
>
> > Because it won't access things either? I can live without ntuser.dat
> > but its knowing what the others are and why they fail that is part of
> > the problem.
>
> It will be of no use because it still won't be able to access files that
> are opened with sharing disallowed.
OK, thanks, and since that depends on the open command it could be any,
and hard to tell what.
[...]
> > Can it extract individual files from the backup? I don't want to copy
> > old Windows System files on to the new machine when it appears.
>
> When you restore you can choose which files from the backup to include.
> Or, when you create the backup you can just exclude those files. Either
> way, it's a big tree-view with a checkbox next to each dir.
Great, thanks. The last time I tried to use native backup on it, it was
from the disk->properties->tools, and it only allowed me to backup to ...
floppy disk. For a 70GB drive that was marvellous. Now I know what to
look for.
>
> Brian
>
Thank you
Hugh
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