System Volume Information

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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 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.
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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
 
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?
 
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).

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
 
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.
 
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