System Restore Point versus System Checkpoint

[M Squires]

I have tried to do several System Restores and in some
cases they do not work. What is the difference in a
System Restore Point and a System Checkpoint?

When I look at the calendar that is displayed during the
Restore Process I see several days that are bold. If I
try to restore to a day when _I_ created a System Restore
Point everything works okay. If I try to restore to a
System Checkpoint, i.e., one that I did not create I get
the following message--"RESTORATION INCOMPLETE. Your
computer cannot be restored to: Wednesday, July 14, 2004,
System Checkpoint. No changes have been made to your
computer. To choose another restore point, restart System
Restore." If you cannot restore to the system created
Checkpoints, what is their purpose?

 

[t.cruise]

They are the same, with the exception that a System Checkpoint is a System Restore Point
that is automatically generated by your system every 24 hours (more or less, depending
upon certain circumstances).

 

[cjobes]

It's like incremental backups.

 

[M. Squires]

If these are the same then why can't I restore to any of
the automatic System generated Checkpoints? I seem to be
able to restore _only_ to a restore point I have created.

M.S.

-----Original Message-----
They are the same, with the exception that a System

Checkpoint is a System Restore Point

that is automatically generated by your system every 24 hours (more or less, depending
upon certain circumstances).
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I have tried to do several System Restores and in some
cases they do not work. What is the difference in a
System Restore Point and a System Checkpoint?

When I look at the calendar that is displayed during the
Restore Process I see several days that are bold. If I
try to restore to a day when _I_ created a System Restore
Point everything works okay. If I try to restore to a
System Checkpoint, i.e., one that I did not create I get
the following message--"RESTORATION INCOMPLETE. Your
computer cannot be restored to: Wednesday, July 14, 2004,
System Checkpoint. No changes have been made to your
computer. To choose another restore point, restart System
Restore." If you cannot restore to the system created
Checkpoints, what is their purpose?

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[Guest]

You have now recieved your introduction to the worst piece of progamming that Microsoft has ever created and one they seem unwilling or unable to fix. Simply turn it off and save cpu time and system resources. Restory points are affected by everything form virus scanning to disk cleanup utilities. Instead use the much more reliable and ever ready NT Backup. If you have XP Home then it isn't installed by default but can be found on your disk in the valueadd\msft\ntbackup folder and installed from there. Then it will be in your start\all programs\accessories\system tools\ backup. When you do a backup with this it's always there and always ready to use and is unaffected by simple cleanup or optimizing programs. Have fun. }:~)

 

[Blair]

You have now recieved your introduction to the worst piece of progamming

that Microsoft has ever created and one they seem unwilling or unable to
fix. Simply turn it off and save cpu time and system resources. Restory
points are affected by everything form virus scanning to disk cleanup
utilities. Instead use the much more reliable and ever ready NT Backup. If
you have XP Home then it isn't installed by default but can be found on your
disk in the valueadd\msft\ntbackup folder and installed from there. Then it
will be in your start\all programs\accessories\system tools\ backup. When
you do a backup with this it's always there and always ready to use and is
unaffected by simple cleanup or optimizing programs. Have fun. }:~)I have found the same problem with system restore but I was disappointed
with NT Backup as XP will not allow a backup of my own data direct to a
CD.-RW I have to save the backup to another file and then copy it to the
CD-RW.
This means I cannot carry out Differential backup's and am forced to do a
full backup of my own data every time.
With my old W98SE system I had packet writing which enabled me to do so, but
it refuses to reinstall on my XP system.
I don't want to buy an all singing and all dancing system restore software
just to do a simple backup.
Is there any way to get packet writing without buying the full programme?
Regards
Blair

 

[davetest]

that Microsoft has ever created and one they seem unwilling or unable to
fix. Simply turn it off and save cpu time and system resources. Restory
points are affected by everything form virus scanning to disk cleanup
utilities. Instead use the much more reliable and ever ready NT Backup. If
you have XP Home then it isn't installed by default but can be found on your
disk in the valueadd\msft\ntbackup folder and installed from there. Then it
will be in your start\all programs\accessories\system tools\ backup. When
you do a backup with this it's always there and always ready to use and is
unaffected by simple cleanup or optimizing programs. Have fun. }:~)I have found the same problem with system restore but I was disappointed
with NT Backup as XP will not allow a backup of my own data direct to a
CD.-RW I have to save the backup to another file and then copy it to the
CD-RW.
This means I cannot carry out Differential backup's and am forced to do a
full backup of my own data every time.
With my old W98SE system I had packet writing which enabled me to do so, but
it refuses to reinstall on my XP system.
I don't want to buy an all singing and all dancing system restore software
just to do a simple backup.
Is there any way to get packet writing without buying the full programme?
Regards
Blair

SR can be adjusted to use a very little disk space, and it seems
*very* light on system resources. I disabled it once and couldn't
see the difference performance-wise.
On the otherhand, leaving it active is a very good insurance.

Dave

 

[Hilary Karp]

It seem unusual that you can restore with some of the restore points and
not with others. They are like links in a chain. Picking one in the
past relies on all the more recent restore points. Anyway seems like
your system restore is messed up. The only way to clean that up is to
turn of restore --- right click My Computer | Properties | Restore.
Turn it off. Then reboot. Go to the system volume information folder
(that's where the restore files are kept) on each drive and delete all
the files. The turn system restore back on. Turn of SR on data drives.
No use here. Also adjust the amount of disk space SR uses. It's a
percentage of the disk size, and that can be way too much. Somewhere
between 500 MB and 1GB gives a good number of restore points, 15 to 30
days.

 

[Alex Nichol]

I have tried to do several System Restores and in some
cases they do not work. What is the difference in a
System Restore Point and a System Checkpoint?

Checkpoint is not a term used in standard XP software, but usually means
either less (just a record of settings) or much more (a dump of all
system files as well). System Restore makes a record in its restore
points having the current registry and all system (and some application)
files changed since last time. So a continuous series allows you to
restore the system back to one of the earlier dates. This is quicker in
making them and more compact than the full type of checkpoint, but
because of the need to keep the chain intact is more liable to get
damaged