How to Restore Registry

[y.ansari]

Dea All,
Would you just guide me how to restore registry key for.
Thanks

[HannesK]

Hello,
and welcome to the forum.

I would do instant recovery and export the key from the instant recovered VM. Then import the data on the machine where it's needed.

Best regards,
Hannes

[y.ansari]

Dear,
I have physical server not virtual. So, Please guide me step by step. Assume that i want to restore registry for cluster server.
how i can do.
Thanks in advance

[Regnor]

I think the easiest way will be to mount the registry directly via regedit from your backup and then export the key.
Just start a file level recovery and then load the corresponding registry hive from c:\veeamflr\...\windows\system32\config on your mount server via regedit. Do the export of the registry key and afterwards unload the hive and stop the recovery.

[y.ansari]

Thanks all of you.
Actually i have restored registry as a file but i don't know how to open and restore specific key.

If anyone having an indea please share it step by step.
Thanks in advance

[Regnor]

Here's a guide which describes how to load/unload a registry hive; look at 'Use regedit as offline Registry editor'. After loading it, you can browse to the specific key and export it.

https://4sysops.com/archives/regedit-as ... ry-editor/

[HannesK]

Hello,
agree, loading the registry from c:\veeamflr is easier than instant recovery.

Instant recovery also works for physical machines to VMware and Hyper-V (if the operating system was backed up). The link I posted above goes through it step by step.

For Windows failover clusters, there is a small thing (clusdb) to keep in mind, which is posted here. But that should be irrelevant for you, because restores like that are only done by Microsoft support according to the Microsoft consultant I talked to back in the days.

Best regards,
Hannes