Restore Points

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Malachi

My Windows Vista Ultimate will only save about 5 restore points, prior ones
are discarded by the system. I have 50 Gigs of free disk space. I would
like to save more restore points. Can anyone tell me how to do this?
Also, can restore points be set to save to a remote device, like a flash
drive?
Thank you in advance for your help!
 
Unless you've changed your defaults, Restore Points should only be deleted
automatically if they've been sitting in the buffer for over 136 years, or
you don't have room for new ones.

You can check how much space is allocated to Restore Points and Shadow
Copies with the command:
(From an elevated CMD prompt:)
vssadmin list shadowcopies

The allocation should be less than 15% of the drive where your OS resides.
Each Restore Point uses about 300MB.
(Meaning 5 Restore Points should be about 1.5GB + File Shadow Copies)
That's nowhere near 15% of even the 50GB you have left.



Malachi said:
My Windows Vista Ultimate will only save about 5 restore points, prior ones
are discarded by the system. I have 50 Gigs of free disk space. I would
like to save more restore points. Can anyone tell me how to do this?
Also, can restore points be set to save to a remote device, like a flash
drive?
Thank you in advance for your help!
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world.
 
The number of restore points saved is not directly dependent upon the
available disk space. It's more specific than that. It's dependent upon the
disk space allocated

To reduce (or increase) the disk space allocated, type (or copy and paste)
“vssadmin resize shadowstorage /on=c: /for=c: /maxsize=6GB” hit Enter. This
example assumes changing the space on
drive C to 6GB.
 
Malachi said:
My Windows Vista Ultimate will only save about 5 restore points, prior
ones
are discarded by the system. I have 50 Gigs of free disk space. I would
like to save more restore points. Can anyone tell me how to do this?
Also, can restore points be set to save to a remote device, like a flash
drive?
Thank you in advance for your help!
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Hi Malachi,

If you are still watching, have a look at the threads I started under
"Disappearing Restore Points. Help?" and "Vista HP Users - Need some Info on
YOUR Sysem Restore...."
 
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