CPC G06F 11/1448 (2013.01) [G06F 21/575 (2013.01); G06F 2221/033 (2013.01)] | 18 Claims |
1. A method of protecting a registry of a host, the registry comprising system hive files and user hive files, the method comprising:
instructing a registry writer via a copy service on the host to prepare for generation of a snapshot, the registry writer being responsible for saving the system hive files to disk before the snapshot is generated;
generating the snapshot;
receiving, from the registry writer, a reporting of the system hive files;
communicating with an application programming interface (API) exposed by an operating system of the host to identify the user hive files; and
backing up, from the snapshot to a secondary storage, the system hive files reported by the registry writer and the user hive files identified using the API exposed by the operating system.
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