Windows Recovery

Hello,
            Does anyone have any documentation regarding Windows Disaster Recovery?  I'm having some problems with restoring System State/registry.
            More background:
            In the FileSet I do not explicitly have the VSS option enabled, however in the backup report I see this:

07-Jun 14:34 pan-fd JobId 72299: Generate VSS snapshots. Driver="Win64 VSS"

07-Jun 14:34 pan-fd JobId 72299:     Snapshot mount point: D:\

07-Jun 14:34 pan-fd JobId 72299:     Snapshot mount point: E:\

07-Jun 14:34 pan-fd JobId 72299:     Snapshot mount point: C:\
<messages regarding volumes used etc.>
08-Jun 18:42 pan-fd JobId 72299: VSS Writer (BackupComplete): "Task Scheduler Writer", State: 0x1 (VSS_WS_STABLE)
08-Jun 18:42 pan-fd JobId 72299: VSS Writer (BackupComplete): "ADFS VSS Writer", State: 0x1 (VSS_WS_STABLE)
08-Jun 18:42 pan-fd JobId 72299: VSS Writer (BackupComplete): "VSS Metadata Store Writer", State: 0x1 (VSS_WS_STABLE)
08-Jun 18:42 pan-fd JobId 72299: VSS Writer (BackupComplete): "Performance Counters Writer", State: 0x1 (VSS_WS_STABLE)
08-Jun 18:42 pan-fd JobId 72299: VSS Writer (BackupComplete): "System Writer", State: 0x1 (VSS_WS_STABLE)
08-Jun 18:42 pan-fd JobId 72299: VSS Writer (BackupComplete): "ASR Writer", State: 0x1 (VSS_WS_STABLE)
08-Jun 18:42 pan-fd JobId 72299: VSS Writer (BackupComplete): "FRS Writer", State: 0x1 (VSS_WS_STABLE)
08-Jun 18:42 pan-fd JobId 72299: VSS Writer (BackupComplete): "Shadow Copy Optimization Writer", State: 0x1 (VSS_WS_STABLE)
08-Jun 18:42 pan-fd JobId 72299: VSS Writer (BackupComplete): "IIS Metabase Writer", State: 0x1 (VSS_WS_STABLE)
08-Jun 18:42 pan-fd JobId 72299: VSS Writer (BackupComplete): "IIS Config Writer", State: 0x1 (VSS_WS_STABLE)
08-Jun 18:42 pan-fd JobId 72299: VSS Writer (BackupComplete): "BITS Writer", State: 0x1 (VSS_WS_STABLE)
08-Jun 18:42 pan-fd JobId 72299: VSS Writer (BackupComplete): "WMI Writer", State: 0x1 (VSS_WS_STABLE)
08-Jun 18:42 pan-fd JobId 72299: VSS Writer (BackupComplete): "Registry Writer", State: 0x1 (VSS_WS_STABLE)
08-Jun 18:42 pan-fd JobId 72299: VSS Writer (BackupComplete): "NTDS", State: 0x1 (VSS_WS_STABLE)
08-Jun 18:42 pan-fd JobId 72299: VSS Writer (BackupComplete): "Dhcp Jet Writer", State: 0x1 (VSS_WS_STABLE)
08-Jun 18:42 pan-fd JobId 72299: VSS Writer (BackupComplete): "COM+ REGDB Writer", State: 0x1 (VSS_WS_STABLE)
08-Jun 18:42 sanmarcos-sd JobId 72299: Elapsed time=28:07:11, Transfer rate=563.0 K Bytes/second
08-Jun 18:42 sanmarcos-sd JobId 72299: Sending spooled attrs to the Director. Despooling 161,729,909 bytes ...
08-Jun 18:43 saturn-dir JobId 72299: Bacula saturn-dir 15.0.2 (21Mar24):
  Build OS:               x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu redhat
  JobId:                  72299
  Job:                    pan.2025-06-07_14.34.17_42
  Backup Level:           Full
  Client:                 "pan-fd" 13.0.1 (05Aug22) Microsoft Windows Server 2012 Standard Edition (build 9200), 64-bit,Cross-compile,Win64
  FileSet:                "pan-files" 2023-06-07 18:05:01
<other stuff deleted for brevity>
  FD Files Written:       492,430
  SD Files Written:       492,430
  FD Bytes Written:       56,887,164,036 (56.88 GB)
  SD Bytes Written:       56,995,578,083 (56.99 GB)
<other stuff deleted for brevity>
  Snapshot/VSS:           yes
  Encryption:             no
  Accurate:               no
<other stuff deleted for brevity>
  Non-fatal FD errors:    0
  SD Errors:              0
  FD termination status:  OK
  SD termination status:  OK
  Termination:            Backup OK

            I have a Windows PE boot iso created with a copy of the fd version 7.4.4, when I do a stat client from the director it shows the fd is VSS aware :
restoreclient-fd Version: 7.4.4 (28 September 2016)  VSS Linux Cross-compile Win64

            I am able to do a full filesystem restore although I do get some errors related to (I think) Junction points.

Thanks,
            Michel

Michel Figgins
IT Support
Atlas Transfer & Storage
858.344.0027

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