Efs File Limitation; Battery Power Settings For Backups; Completing A Backup; Microsoft Message Queuing (Msmq) - Lenovo ThinkCentre A62 Deployment Manual

Table 13. Password Persistence considerations
Issue
If a user logs into an old backup with the current account
and password, then none of the Encrypted File system files
and folders will work because those files were encrypted
against the original account and password, not the current
account and password.
If the user did not exist on backup, then the user will not
have any of their user folders or files. All Internet Explorer
favorites and application data do not exist.
Deleting the user ID in the current accounts and passwords
will remove the user ID authentication information from all
the backups.
If a manager or a network administrator wanted to delete
the access of several ex-employees and wanted to restore
to the base backup to reset the system to remove all of
the employees authentication accounts, the ex-employees
would still have access with Password Persistence.
When restoring from a local hard drive, the current password will be used when Password Persistence is
selected. When restoring from USB or the network, the password of the most recent backup will be used.

EFS file limitation

The date and time stamp attributes are not preserved for EFS files restored by the Rescue and Recovery
program, all other files will retain their original date and time.

Battery power settings for backups

With the corresponding ADM file installed for the Rescue and Recovery program, if you have the Battery
Percent Requirement set in Group Policy at 1% in the following ADM path: ThinkVantage\Rescue and
Recovery\Settings\Backup, and the system that you are attempting to backup has 1% remaining battery
power, set the following policy to Hide the No Battery user message:
ThinkVantage\Rescue and Recovery\Settings\User Messages
For more information on Active Directory configurations for the Rescue and Recovery program using Group
Policy, see the accompanying XML/ADM Supplement for the deployment guide located on the ThinkVantage
Technologies Administrator Tools page:
http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/detail.page?LegacyDocID=TVAN-ADMIN#rnr

Completing a backup

Applications installed or uninstalled after the selected backup is created might need to be installed again
to function correctly. Make sure that the system is connected to an AC power supply before initiating a
backup, restore, rejuvenation, or archive procedure. Failure to do so can result in data loss or an irretrievable
system failure.

Microsoft Message Queuing (MSMQ)

If you are using MSMQ, you might have problems starting the service after a restore operation from an
incremental backup. That is how the Rescue and Recovery program knows what files have changed so
it can back them up. So, if all those files aren't backed up on an incremental, then the files could get out
of synch and cause the service to fail. Here are some registry settings that run a command before the
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Impact if Password Persistence is enabled
• User will lose Encrypted File System data
• You cannot use Encrypted File System and Password
Persistence together.
• The User ID documents settings are not set.
• Potential data loss
• User does not have access to data.
• Is not a standard of the Microsoft User ID maintenance
practices and recommendations.