We're deploying Win7 to 100's of machines, need a way to remotely reset/wipe the backup catalog. This would be the equivalent of doing at the computer console:
Control Panel
Back up your computer
(The last backup did not complete successfully)More Information
Delete catalog and try to run Backup again
but done remotely/programmatically.
Newly deployed machines that haven't had their backup configured yet occasionally get into this state, we need to remotely reset/wipe the catalog so they can start fresh. I've tried deleting the sysvol\Windows Backup\Catalogs files and folders, have tried fooling with the entries in hklm\soft\ms\cv\WindowsBackup, no joy. Have hunted thru registry and hard disk, can't see where this info is kept. Clients haven't yet created folders at the remote backup target location, so there's no catalog there to delete. If we do the steps mentioned above at the gui, all is well, but I need to know how to do this remotely without having to visit the client.
Thanks for any info.