long term restore

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Why won't the restore function let you go back more than a week or so? I'd
like to restore about six weeks without having to go through the hassle of
totally restoring to like new conditions.
 
The maximum number of restore points is limited by three factors.
1) The size of your drive/partition.
2) The amount of drive space system restore is allowed to use.
3) The size each restore points occupies on your drive.

Select Start/Control Panel/System, then in the System Properties window
click on the System Restore tab.
Next select the drive letter (usually C:),
Then click on the Setting button
Now in the Drive Settings window move the Disk space usage slider to the
right (if it is not already at the maximum setting) to increase the amount
of drive space System Restore points will use.

Six weeks is one large number and I'm not certain if you will be able to
reach this number.

JS
 
checksix said:
Why won't the restore function let you go back more than a week or
so? I'd like to restore about six weeks without having to go through
the hassle of totally restoring to like new conditions.
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How far you can go back depends on how many restore points you have, and
that in turn depends on how much disk space you give it (the default is 12%
of your drive). And it's all subject to a maximum of 90 days.

However, from a practical standpoint, it doesn't matter, since trying to use
System Restore to go back more than a week, or at most two, seldom works
because if you restored back that far, the operating system would likely be
out of synch with other files on the drive.

So forget about going back six weeks. Even if you had restore points that
old, using them would undoubtedly create more problems than they solved.

System Restore is not meant to be a complete backup solution. It's an
excellent tool for undoing a recent mistake or failed installation, and is a
very easy quick way to revert your operating system to the condition it was
in a day or a few days ago. But that's all. You still need a broader backup
strategy in place.
 
Hi,

Restoring back more than a week or so using System Restore could cause
more problem than it solves. System Restore is best used immediately
after a problem is discovered. When a system is restored every monitored
application file installed after the restore point being restored to
will be gone. In most cases leaving the application only partially
installed, and non-functional. Any system setting and the registry will
also be restored.

All About System Restore in WinXP
http://bertk.mvps.org/index.html

Long term backups are best made with disk imaging software such as
Acronis True Image
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/trueimage

All system manufactures are required to supply a way to recovery the
system back to day one. This is referred to a system recovery and the
process will differ. Check with the manufacturer for instruction.

Regards,
Bert Kinney MS-MVP Shell/User
http://bertk.mvps.org
Member: http://dts-l.org
 
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