Vista - System Volume Information

I have noticed that my System Volume Information folder is very big.
I cleared the restores and it went down to 600MB because it has to leave the
lastest.
However, after 4 days, it has already risen to 5GB in size.

My hard disk is 160GB capcacity.
How large should the folder be and will it rise to a certain point and then
stop?
What proportion of the drive does the folder take up.

"Gideon_CC" wrote
>I have noticed that my System Volume Information folder is very big.
> I cleared the restores and it went down to 600MB because it has to leave
> the
> lastest.
> However, after 4 days, it has already risen to 5GB in size.
>
> My hard disk is 160GB capcacity.
> How large should the folder be and will it rise to a certain point and
> then
> stop?
> What proportion of the drive does the folder take up.

I believe the default is 15% of the drive. You can see what is used and the
maximum allocated by running the vssadmin command tool from an elevated
command prompt. Do vssadmin /? to see the options. With this you can also
limit the size allocated for Shadow copies using
vssadmin resize shadowstorage

For example to limit the size to 7GB on the D: volume the command would be:
vssadmin resize shadowstorage /on=D: /for=D: /maxsize=7GB
--
Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]

Hi,

I believe the default to be roughly 12% of the drive. In your case this
would mean 19.6GB.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Gideon_CC" <GideonCC@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:8809B0B7-3247-464A-95AD-980BA4281F83@microsoft.com...
>I have noticed that my System Volume Information folder is very big.
> I cleared the restores and it went down to 600MB because it has to leave
> the
> lastest.
> However, after 4 days, it has already risen to 5GB in size.
>
> My hard disk is 160GB capcacity.
> How large should the folder be and will it rise to a certain point and
> then
> stop?
> What proportion of the drive does the folder take up.

I did the command:

List ShadowStorage

and the follow came up:

hadow Copy Storage association
For volume: (C\\?\Volume{96d66944-05f6-11dc-8728-806e6f6e6963}\
Shadow Copy Storage volume:
(C\\?\Volume{96d66944-05f6-11dc-8728-806e6f6e69
63}\
Used Shadow Copy Storage space: 637.688 MB
Allocated Shadow Copy Storage space: 857.906 MB
Maximum Shadow Copy Storage space: 10.932 GB

Does this mean the maximum folder size for System Volume Information is 10GB
or for a single backup or something. How can I see what it is currently set
to and what the current maximum amount is?

"Rick Rogers" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I believe the default to be roughly 12% of the drive. In your case this
> would mean 19.6GB.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>
> "Gideon_CC" <GideonCC@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:8809B0B7-3247-464A-95AD-980BA4281F83@microsoft.com...
> >I have noticed that my System Volume Information folder is very big.
> > I cleared the restores and it went down to 600MB because it has to leave
> > the
> > lastest.
> > However, after 4 days, it has already risen to 5GB in size.
> >
> > My hard disk is 160GB capcacity.
> > How large should the folder be and will it rise to a certain point and
> > then
> > stop?
> > What proportion of the drive does the folder take up.
>
>

Hi,

The last figure is the maximum size allocated for all of the backups, and
actually it should be higher. I stated 12%, but Rock is correct that it
should be around 15% (I was thinking about XP for some reason).

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"Gideon_CC" <GideonCC@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:77858877-F461-452B-A55D-A50158496B81@microsoft.com...
>I did the command:
>
> List ShadowStorage
>
> and the follow came up:
>
> hadow Copy Storage association
> For volume: (C\\?\Volume{96d66944-05f6-11dc-8728-806e6f6e6963}\
> Shadow Copy Storage volume:
> (C\\?\Volume{96d66944-05f6-11dc-8728-806e6f6e69
> 63}\
> Used Shadow Copy Storage space: 637.688 MB
> Allocated Shadow Copy Storage space: 857.906 MB
> Maximum Shadow Copy Storage space: 10.932 GB
>
> Does this mean the maximum folder size for System Volume Information is
> 10GB
> or for a single backup or something. How can I see what it is currently
> set
> to and what the current maximum amount is?
>
> "Rick Rogers" wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I believe the default to be roughly 12% of the drive. In your case this
>> would mean 19.6GB.
>>
>> --
>> Best of Luck,
>>
>> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
>> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
>> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>>
>> "Gideon_CC" <GideonCC@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:8809B0B7-3247-464A-95AD-980BA4281F83@microsoft.com...
>> >I have noticed that my System Volume Information folder is very big.
>> > I cleared the restores and it went down to 600MB because it has to
>> > leave
>> > the
>> > lastest.
>> > However, after 4 days, it has already risen to 5GB in size.
>> >
>> > My hard disk is 160GB capcacity.
>> > How large should the folder be and will it rise to a certain point and
>> > then
>> > stop?
>> > What proportion of the drive does the folder take up.
>>
>>

Why do you think it is smaller than you say it should be?
Do you think it will change?
I did a cleaned up system restore yesterday buts its up to 1GB in size now.

"Rick Rogers" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The last figure is the maximum size allocated for all of the backups, and
> actually it should be higher. I stated 12%, but Rock is correct that it
> should be around 15% (I was thinking about XP for some reason).
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>
> "Gideon_CC" <GideonCC@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:77858877-F461-452B-A55D-A50158496B81@microsoft.com...
> >I did the command:
> >
> > List ShadowStorage
> >
> > and the follow came up:
> >
> > hadow Copy Storage association
> > For volume: (C\\?\Volume{96d66944-05f6-11dc-8728-806e6f6e6963}\
> > Shadow Copy Storage volume:
> > (C\\?\Volume{96d66944-05f6-11dc-8728-806e6f6e69
> > 63}\
> > Used Shadow Copy Storage space: 637.688 MB
> > Allocated Shadow Copy Storage space: 857.906 MB
> > Maximum Shadow Copy Storage space: 10.932 GB
> >
> > Does this mean the maximum folder size for System Volume Information is
> > 10GB
> > or for a single backup or something. How can I see what it is currently
> > set
> > to and what the current maximum amount is?
> >
> > "Rick Rogers" wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I believe the default to be roughly 12% of the drive. In your case this
> >> would mean 19.6GB.
> >>
> >> --
> >> Best of Luck,
> >>
> >> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> >> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> >> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> >> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
> >>
> >> "Gideon_CC" <GideonCC@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> >> news:8809B0B7-3247-464A-95AD-980BA4281F83@microsoft.com...
> >> >I have noticed that my System Volume Information folder is very big.
> >> > I cleared the restores and it went down to 600MB because it has to
> >> > leave
> >> > the
> >> > lastest.
> >> > However, after 4 days, it has already risen to 5GB in size.
> >> >
> >> > My hard disk is 160GB capcacity.
> >> > How large should the folder be and will it rise to a certain point and
> >> > then
> >> > stop?
> >> > What proportion of the drive does the folder take up.
> >>
> >>
>
>