Prevent System Restore from Replacing Websites

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When I do a system restore, it rolls back all of my IIS websites. If I'm in
the middle of developing a new ASP.NET site and do a system restore, I lose
all the work I've done since the restore. Is there a way to configure the
restore to not include these files?
 
Good reference thanks. It's at least the .CS files and possible the .resx,
..aspx, and .bin files. These are located in the Inetpub>wwwroot folder.
 
Specifically because of System Restore, the (new) XP "rule" has been to
NEVER NEVER NEVER put your personal files into any place other than inside
your My Documents folder (or the Shared Documents folder). Do Not Use
Folders at the Root of a drive, a common DOS/Win95 practice.

This is because SR will revert any folders that are outside of My
Documents, but never touches the contents of My Documents (it will revert
other folders inside your profile tho, such as desktop).

Old habits are hard to break...
 
Specifically because of System Restore, the (new) XP "rule" has been
to NEVER NEVER NEVER put your personal files into any place other
than inside your My Documents folder (or the Shared Documents
folder). Do Not Use Folders at the Root of a drive, a common
DOS/Win95 practice.

This is because SR will revert any folders that are outside of My
Documents, but never touches the contents of My Documents (it will
revert other folders inside your profile tho, such as desktop).
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This is not true. System Restore restores the operating system. It doesn't
touch other folders, whether My Documents or other non-ooperating system
folders.
 
Regardless, it does replace websites and development files when the machine
is acting as a web server. Original Question: Is there a way to disable that
part of the system restore?
 
The .cs extension is a monitored file type. I have the same problem with
..nod files used by the website builder I use. I would suggest keeping a
current backup of these files or direct them to a partition/drive that is
unmonitored by System Restore.

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