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jgt · Expert Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Posts: 80

Is it possible to backup my Outlook registry keys? I tried %@HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging Subsystem\Profiles\Outlook%\ and this produces an error "Source drive %@HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows Messaging Subsystem\Profiles\Outlook%\ does not exist!"

I've created profiles to backup my Outlook 2007 files (in the Local and Roaming folders) on a daily basis and keep 7 days of data. This covers everything except for the user accounts which are stored in the registry. I'd like to backup my accounts on a weekly basis, possibly daily. This would allow me to easily recreate my Outlook environment in a short amount of time.

If SyncBack Pro cannot do this I'm open for other suggestions.

Dave Wilkins · Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2009 6:37 pm Post subject:

Hi

It's not designed for backing up registry keys, it's designed for extracting a value from the registry - e.g., in my system

P:\%@HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\2BrightSparks\SyncBackPro\Language%\

resolves to

[P:\en\]

You'll need to export the key to a file, then use Pro to back that up. You may be able to use REGEDIT to export the key to a file as per this example

regedit.exe /e P:\myfile.reg HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE

(adjust to suit), but be aware that this will trigger a UAC prompt in Vista

You could then back up the .reg file. Restoring it would simply be a matter of double-clicking it once copied back (anywhere) to the PC in question. You could emebd a batch file with the command into the Programs - Before section, for example (bearing in mind the Vista issue, if applicable)

Or there are probably 3rd-party utilities out there that can do it for you, but they may have the same privileges/UAC issues if Vista is involved
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jgt · Expert Joined: 30 Jun 2005 Posts: 80

Thanks Dave, your feedback is what I suspected and had been looking at 3rd party solutions. I've found some and the only thing remaining is to settle on one. If anybody has a suggestion or has good/bad feedback regarding their experience I'd appreciate it.

dhry · Newbie Joined: 23 Nov 2009 Posts: 1

Dave, are there any plans to add registry key export capabilities to SyncBackPro? Plenty of other backup programs do this (HandyBackup, Genie, Acronis TrueImage etc), but they lack the flexible directory synchronization in SBP. In particular, the other backup programs' "mirror" modes rely on catalog files in the destination and they don't appear to scan the destination for mirror backups first, unlike SBP. I'm basically not comfortable with a backup program blindly relying on a catalog file in the destination in order to work out what's there or not. Scheduling a batch file that calls something else to export registry key data prior to a SBP run isn't exactly an optimal solution here.

Regards
Dhry

Dave Wilkins · Posted: Wed Nov 25, 2009 5:05 pm Post subject:

Not as far as I'm aware. We prefer to make a facility (Programs-Before & -After) available which can be leveraged to do all sorts of things (in effect, making the products user-extensible).
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