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What is a system state backup for?

The windows backup utility comes with an option to backup the system-state. What is this for? Has it a real utility? Can I recover that windows on another machine?
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Active Directory disaster recovery with DPM

I have a sort of catch-22 question here. Suppose I'm using Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (2010 or 2012, it works the same way) to backup, amongst various other things, my Active ...
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Extract registry key from NTBackup System State backup

A Windows Server 2003 machine died recently but I need some information that was contained in the now-defunct server's registry. I have a "System State" backup file created by the Windows Server 2003 ...
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System State Backups using NTbackup fail with error 0x800423f4 (relating to volume shadow copy)

We have a Windows Server 2003 R2 running Service Pack 2. It is a domain controller (Global Catalog) and our main internal DNS server. We run a System State backup of the machine to back up Active ...
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Linux process state while waiting for a HTTP response

In Linux, what happens to the state of a process (curl, postman, mule, caml) when it has sent a HTTP request and waiting for a HTTP response? What is the way to know how long the process is waiting ...
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