Guest Martin Murray Posted July 13, 2007 Posted July 13, 2007 How much room should I really allocate for restore points? System Restore wants 10% of my 100GB drive and that seems like way too much.
Guest kleefarr Posted July 13, 2007 Posted July 13, 2007 RE: How much space does a Restore Point take? I suppose it depends how much info you want to be restored. If it needs 10G then let it have 10G. "Martin Murray" wrote: > How much room should I really allocate for restore points? System Restore > wants 10% of my 100GB drive and that seems like way too much. > > >
Guest Rich Barry Posted July 13, 2007 Posted July 13, 2007 Re: How much space does a Restore Point take? Martin, I would allocate 2G. You could delete the older restore points by opening the System Volume Folder until you get to the RP numbered folders. You may have quite a few and I would delete everything except the last four or five. If the System Volume Folder is not available in C:\ you can go to WindowsExplorer>Tools>Folder Options>View> Click on Show Hidden files and folders and uncheck Hide protected operating system files. "Martin Murray" <email@martinmurray.com> wrote in message news:u6e2ISYxHHA.1568@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > How much room should I really allocate for restore points? System Restore > wants 10% of my 100GB drive and that seems like way too much. >
Guest Jon Scott Posted July 13, 2007 Posted July 13, 2007 Re: How much space does a Restore Point take? "Rich Barry" wrote... > Martin, I would allocate 2G. You could delete the older restore points > by opening the System Volume Folder until you > get to the RP numbered folders. You may have quite a few and I would > delete everything except the last four or five. > If the System Volume Folder is not available in C:\ you can go to > WindowsExplorer>Tools>Folder Options>View> > Click on Show Hidden files and folders and uncheck Hide protected > operating system files. Actually, you can do it this way: In Windows Explorer, right click your C:\ drive then select Properties On the General tab, click Disk Cleanup button When disk cleaner is finished scanning, go to the More Options tab Under System Restore, click Clean up and select Yes -- Thanks, Jon E. Scott Blue Orb Software http://www.blueorbsoft.com
Guest Bert Kinney Posted July 13, 2007 Posted July 13, 2007 Re: How much space does a Restore Point take? Hi Martin, Yes, 10% of 100 GB's is way to much. Two week worth of restore point should be sufficient. Restoring back more than a couple of weeks can often cause more problems than it solves. What happens is all monitored files and registry setting of any applications installed after the restore point being used will be gone. Leaving the application unusable. Start adjusting the disk space down until the desired amount of days worth of restore point is archived. How to Adjust the amount of disk space System Restore uses to hold restore points: http://bertk.mvps.org/html/diskspace.html Regards, Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User http://bertk.mvps.org Member: http://dts-l.org Martin Murray wrote: > How much room should I really allocate for restore points? System Restore > wants 10% of my 100GB drive and that seems like way too much.
Guest Ken Blake Posted July 13, 2007 Posted July 13, 2007 Re: How much space does a Restore Point take? "Martin Murray" <email@martinmurray.com> wrote in message news:u6e2ISYxHHA.1568@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > How much room should I really allocate for restore points? System Restore > wants 10% of my 100GB drive and that seems like way too much. You are correct. That's way too much. In practice you can seldom go back more than a week or two, because any more than that and your registry gets out of synch with everything else. So allocating space for more than a dozen or so restore points is a waste. So I would give it just 1-2GB. -- Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User Please reply to the newsgroup
Guest Plato Posted July 16, 2007 Posted July 16, 2007 Re: How much space does a Restore Point take? Martin Murray wrote: > > How much room should I really allocate for restore points? System Restore > wants 10% of my 100GB drive and that seems like way too much. Time to get a way larger hard disk drive. -- http://www.bootdisk.com/
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