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net stop/start “Remote Storage Engine”
net stop/start “Remote Storage File”
The RSS databases are located in the following directories:
<%SystemRoot%>\System32\RemoteStorage
<%SystemRoot%>\System32\NtmsData
Backing Up Windows User Profiles, Event Logs, and User Disk
Quotas
User Profiles A User Profile contains information about a user configuration. This
includes the profile components, such as desktop settings, screen colors,
and network connections. When a user logs on, the user profile is loaded
and the Windows environment is set accordingly.
The user profile data resides in the following directory:
• <%SystemRoot%>\Profiles on Windows NT
• \Documents and Settings on Windows 2000/XP/Server 2003
These directories contain all user profiles that are configured on the
system and backed up by Data Protector. If a system is configured for
multiple users, a separate user profile belongs to each defined user. For
example, the All Users and Default User profiles contain the profile
components common to all defined users and those assigned to a newly
created user.
Data Protector reads the location of the profiles from the following
Registry keys:
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\\
CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders
where information about common profile components resides.
HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\\
CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders
NOTE If you back up CONFIGURATION and the whole Windows system partition
as a filesystem, the Profiles are backed up twice; as part of a filesystem
backup and as part of CONFIGURATION. To avoid this, exclude the profile
data (see above for location) from the filesystem backup.