Chapter 25. Restoring User Data with loadstate

This chapter provides information and commands concerning the following topics:

Running loadstate

Specifying XML files

Specifying hard-link options

Deleting the hard-link store

Identifying users to migrate

Decrypting an encrypted migration store

Handling errors

Running loadstate

Chapter 24, “Capturing User Data with scanstate,” covers the overall migration process and the use of scanstate to capture the migration data. As a reminder, Figure 25-1 shows the overall process. This chapter covers the loadstate commands.

Figure 25-1 Migration of Data with USMT

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The basic syntax of the loadstate ...

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