Vista - System Restore - disk space

Hi Shawn,
Ohh Thanks alot. I discovered I had three different back ups and they had filled up all that space. Now I have the space back.

Thxs Heph

I´m sorry, there is no 6b steps or 8 to resolve my problem.

How is possible that restore points suddenly no more exist, even If I have enough disc space?

I'm sorry Nipo,

Do you mean that these steps are not available to you, or you do not see them in the tutorial here? :

System Restore

Your welcome Heph. I'm happy to hear that you got it sorted out.

Shawn

Well I´d like to store restore points for System disk to another partition, not create restore points to each of partition.

And why some programs when I installed delete it the restore points?

If I resize space for Restore points are they will be deleted?

Nipo,

As far as I know, the restore points are only stored on the same drive that are selected for Vista to create restore points for.


It depends on the program. Some programs will have Vista create a restore point. If you are out of MAX space, then the oldest restore point will be deleted to make room for this new one. Some utility programs have a option to delete all restore points.


Only the older restore points if you change the MAZ size to a smaller size than the current Used size.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Hi Shawn,

I have a way of getting control of system restore, but I don't see anybody else using it - is there a fatal flaw in this that I have overlooked?

When my pc is in great shape, I create a restore point and delete the earlier ones. I then stop Microsoft Software Shadow Copy Provider, and stop and disable Volume Shadow Copy.

I just need to start those two services to access that restore point or create another and then repeat the process as often as I like.

I then have the restore points I choose for as long as I want them.

Seems better than not using it at all and having no restore points, and a lot better than letting it do it's own thing, using resources, disk space and deleting older points I might have wanted to go back to.

It works perfectly so far.

Thanks

SIW2

Hi SIW2,

I assume that you meant that you delete the old restore points first, then create a new one instead.

The only thing that I see that may come back to bite you later is that System Restore points are only help up to 90 days before they are automatically deleted. Since you killed the services, it may not do this, but then again it probably will when you start them next. As long as you create a new one before this time, you should be ok.

Other than that, I see no problem with it. Of course a Complete PC Backup will beat a System Restore any day since a System Restore may not always help.

Hope this helps,
Shawn

Thanks Shawn,

Yes, I usually create one every week or two. Sometimes use disk cleanup to remove all except last restore point - seems to work fine.

SIW2

Hi Shawn,
I think if you check the box for D in that dialog, it enables setting restore points and shadow copies for D on D.

In Vista, you can't make it store shadows for C on D. That feature is only enabled on Server editions of Windows. In Vista, this command:
vssadmin Resize ShadowStorage /For=C: /On=D: /Maxsize=3GB
always produces an error message.

So I think the only workarounds for Cabrón, if he wants to provide more space for more restore points and shadow copies, is to either resize his C: partition larger or make more free space on C:, maybe by moving his User folders such as Documents, Pictiures, Videos, etc, to another drive.

Alan