Re: Can I restore an event log from backup?

From: news.microsoft.com (kripes@nospam.roflmao.com)
Date: 07/31/02 

From: "news.microsoft.com" <kripes@nospam.roflmao.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 17:29:29 -0400

Sure, why not?

They're stored in %systemroot%\system32\config

"Sean" <spdivr@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:3e1b01c238d2$2c99a6b0$36ef2ecf@tkmsftngxa12...
> I made some changes in auditing that quickly overwrote an
> event log. Can I do a restore of event logs (only) from a
> tape backup from a few days ago? Thanks!
>
>

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