emulator Posted May 6, 2009 Report Share Posted May 6, 2009 I just upgraded my Parallels Desktop Windows Vista installation and ran my nightly backup on it using the current EMC Retrospect client. The backup reported no problems. I'll have to run a restore now to see if that works (I LOVE virtual machines..they let you break things with confidence :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emulator Posted May 6, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 6, 2009 Bummer...looks like the backups work correctly, but not the restores. When restoring my test Win7 machine, the following showed up in the logs: Writer "Registry Writer" failed and could not be restored, error -1100 (invalid handle). Component "Registry" failed and could not be restored, error -1100 (invalid handle). System configuration restored, please reboot the computer. When I rebooted the client after the restore, the Retrospect Helper Service did not present me with the standard "system configuration" message, prompting for a reboot. After rebooting, Windows warned me of an "unauthorized change" resulting in limited Windows functionality. My Symantec Endpoint Protection did not restore correctly, giving me an Autoprotect "not functioning correctly" error. Microsoft Outlook 2007 prompted me to reactivate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robvil Posted May 8, 2009 Report Share Posted May 8, 2009 and you will see the same restore issues with windows 2008 and probably Vista too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emulator Posted May 8, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 8, 2009 (edited) No...Vista and 2008 work just fine. I've tested these extensively. When new Microsoft updates come out, we test to make sure that Retrospect can restore them. When new versions of Retrospect come out, we make sure that nothing got "broken" by doing test restores. We do NOT like getting caught with "our pants down". Edited May 8, 2009 by Guest Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robvil Posted May 9, 2009 Report Share Posted May 9, 2009 That´s great to here. This must mean 32-bit Vista/2008 works, but 64-bit do not. On 64-bit versions I see the approx. same issues when I do a restore. Robert :happy: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emulator Posted May 11, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 11, 2009 Robert: I just did a restore of a test Windows Server 2008 64-bit box, and didn't see any errors. What version of Retrospect are you using? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emulator Posted May 28, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 28, 2009 I stand corrected. This problem DOES occur with the 64-bit version of Server 2008. But check this out: http://forums.dantz.com/showtopic.php?tid/30775/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted August 25, 2009 Report Share Posted August 25, 2009 We have tried to reproduce this problem using the latest Windows 7 version but do not get these errors. Do you still see the problem? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
emulator Posted August 29, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 29, 2009 I'm using RC1. Is there another version? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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