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Additionally, with Windows XP Home, by default the Administrator password has a blank password which will not work with BackupAssist. Please see either Option 1 or Option 2 in WindowsXPAuthentication for details on how to resolve this.January 26, 2006, at 07:33 PM
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BackupAssist utilises a user account with Administrator privledges to backup the your data, however sometimes you may have directories that do not have inherently
administrator rights. You may be concerned that these files are not being backed up, particularly when you attempt to estimate your file selections in BackupAssist and find that the dialog indcates that certain directories could not be estimated due to invalid permissions.
Figure 1: Advanced NT Backup Options Now, your next backup report will contain a list of every single file that was backed up. Your report will probably be huge, so be sure to turn off the feature the following day. But you can use the report to verify that your otherwise-restricted directories are actually being backed up, and can be restored.
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Even though the Backup will run as the administrator user (or whatever user that you setup as your backup user in BackupAssist), the backup operation itself should special privileges that allow access the filesystem, regardless of the privileges that individual directories may have. For example, please see this article: http://www.comptechdoc.org/os/windows/win2k/win2kbackup.htmlQuote: Users with the "Backup files and directories" or "Restore files and directories" permission can backup or restore files. On Windows 2000 computers Administrators and Server Operators can backup and restore data.
Thus, the backup operation is itself "privileged". So whilst you're estimating the file size in BackupAssist and it can't get into certain
directories (because BackupAssist doesn't have the privileges that a real backup operation has), when the backup occurs it will pick up those
files and directories.
Verification
You can verify this by going to the Advanced Tab of BackupAssist and then accessing the Advanced NTBackup Options. In the popup window, there's a checkbox to log every file that was backed up. Check this. Figure 1: Advanced NT Backup Options Now, your next backup report will contain a list of every single file that was backed up. Your report will probably be huge, so be sure to turn off the feature the following day. But you can use the report to verify that your otherwise-restricted directories are actually being backed up, and can be restored.
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NTBackup is the executable name for Windows Backup and is the utility that BackupAssist uses to perform the backup operation. It is required to be installed in order to use BackupAssist.
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Unfortunately, NTBackup does not come pre-installed on Windows XP Home, but it can be installed manually from the Windows XP Home installation CD, and there are details on how to achieve this here: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;q302894
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Windows XP Home Issues
BackupAssist utilises a user account with Administrator privledges to backup the your data, however sometimes you may have directories that do not have inherently administrator rights. You may be concerned that these files are not being backed up, particularly when you attempt to estimate your file selections in BackupAssist and find that the dialog indcates that certain directories could not be estimated due to invalid permissions.Resolution
Even though the Backup will run as the administrator user (or whatever user that you setup as your backup user in BackupAssist), the backup operation itself should special privileges that allow access the filesystem, regardless of the privileges that individual directories may have. For example, please see this article: http://www.comptechdoc.org/os/windows/win2k/win2kbackup.htmlQuote: Users with the "Backup files and directories" or "Restore files and directories" permission can backup or restore files. On Windows 2000 computers Administrators and Server Operators can backup and restore data.
Thus, the backup operation is itself "privileged". So whilst you're estimating the file size in BackupAssist and it can't get into certain
directories (because BackupAssist doesn't have the privileges that a real backup operation has), when the backup occurs it will pick up those
files and directories.
Verification
You can verify this by going to the Advanced Tab of BackupAssist and then accessing the Advanced NTBackup Options. In the popup window, there's a checkbox to log every file that was backed up. Check this. Figure 1: Advanced NT Backup Options Now, your next backup report will contain a list of every single file that was backed up. Your report will probably be huge, so be sure to turn off the feature the following day. But you can use the report to verify that your otherwise-restricted directories are actually being backed up, and can be restored.