Automatic Restore Points not being created

[Guest]

I am running Vista Business, and I find that the system is no longer creating
automatic system restore points (not sure when the problem began).

I can still manually create restore points, and I find that I can backup my
files using the “Backup and Restore Centerâ€. I verified that “System
Protection†is enabled for drive “Câ€. I even disabled, and then re-enabled
“System Protection†for drive “C†thinking that it might help – no joy.

I noticed that the “Volume Shadow Copy†service is started, but set to
“Manual†– not sure if this is relevant or not.

I did have Norton Save & Restore 2.0 installed for a time, but ran into
numerous issues with that product, so I have completely uninstalled it from
my system.

Does anyone have a suggestion as to the problem and solution?

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi Rich,

VSS should be on manual, so that's normal. Have you checked the properties
of the job in task scheduler? The triggers should be set for a daily event.

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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

 

[Doug]

I am running Vista Business, and I find that the system is no longer
creating automatic system restore points (not sure when the problem
began).

I can still manually create restore points, and I find that I can backup
my files using the “Backup and Restore Centerâ€. I verified that “System
Protection†is enabled for drive “Câ€. I even disabled, and then
re-enabled “System Protection†for drive “C†thinking that it might help
– no joy.

I noticed that the “Volume Shadow Copy†service is started, but set to
“Manual†– not sure if this is relevant or not.

I did have Norton Save & Restore 2.0 installed for a time, but ran into
numerous issues with that product, so I have completely uninstalled it
from my system.

Does anyone have a suggestion as to the problem and solution?

RichG, I recently found the same problem.
I managed to trace the problem to the Scheduled task for the automatic
restore points. It was set to run only when the system was idle. As I had
a background task constantly running, even at low priority, the PC was
never idle. I change the task to ignore the idle setting and my restore
points started appearing.

Hope this helps.
Doug