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Brian Dessent wrote:
> "H.S." wrote:
> 
> 
>>rsync: send_files failed to open "/cygdrive/c/Documents and
>>Settings/winuser/NTUSER.DAT": Device or resource busy (16)
> 
> 
> That is your HKCU hive.  It is opened by the system in exclusive mode,
> and no other process can read or write it.  The purpose being that if
> you want to access the registry, you go through the registry API.  For
> instance, each registry key can have an ACL, so it's possible to create
> a registry key that is only readable by a particular user.  But if
> processes could just read the hive data on disk it would completely
> bypass that security.
> 
> So you can't back up the registry that way, but that doesn't matter
> because there are much better ways.  For example "reg export HKCU
> file.reg" and then backup file.reg.
> 
> Brian
> 

That was a nice explanation. So, since I am in the processes of backing
up the Windows XP box, I do not think I need to back up the registry and
 I can exclude the registry enteries, if I can find a rule (file
pattern) to do so. So far, I have this in my excludes file:
################################################################
#do not back up some temp file and other IE stuff
- Temporary Internet Files
- Temp/
- History.IE5
# do not back up Recent docs in Windows
- Recent/
- *[Cc]ache*
- *[Tt]rash*
- Local Settings
- Start Menu
- Documents and Settings/*/Cookies

#do not include any temporary files, swap files, etc
- *~
- *.swp
#specify the directories to be backedup
+ /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/sahambi/Application Data/Mozilla
+ *Application*/Mozilla/
+ *Application*/Thunderbird

#
################################################################

Is there another rule that I can include in the file above and my
registry hive will not be backed up?

And, also, should I be backing up the registry hive or not in the first
place?

thanks,
->HS




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