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RalfG
Appended from a previous thread - Re. System Restore Question
I deleted the existing restore points by disabling System Restore. When I
re-enabled (without rebooting) SR it was still only allocating 5.5GB (5.859
actually) total space. Free space on the 150GB Vista drive is 112GB.
Shouldn't this process have reset the System Restore space to its default
maximum size? Any idea what kind of thing might prevent SR from resetting?
The first restore point that I created manually only used 86MB (300MB
allocated) but a second restore point that was created automatically ate up
another 800MB on top of that (1.122GB total allocated). In between I'd
uninstalled some burning apps and games and enabled Vista's Telnet client
(which triggered the new restore point), none of which required rebooting.
When I manually created a third restore point it only consumed another 31MB.
Removed the Telnet client again and the next point that was auto-created
eventually consumed 270MB. Strangely, each time I ran "vssadmin list
shadowstorage" it increased the amount of space reported for Used Shadow
Copy Storage space by some small amount until it finally seemed to settle
(there was drive activity after restore point creation had been reported
finished so I was curious).
As an FYI, the computer is temporarily quad-booting, with 2 installs of
Windows 7, and I notice that SR in both of those are behaving similarly WRT
maximum allocated restore space. Both Win7 installs are on identical drive
sizes (48.8GB) and SR in both is only allocating 1.465GB maximum storage
space. Other than that coincidence(?) they don't appear to interact with
Vista's SR. XP is also on the computer on its own 150GB partition but the
other OS drives are hidden from it. There's also a 1TB drive for storage
which is excluded from any System Restore and a 7GB FAT32 recovery partition
that SR in Vista ignores.
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Hi,
Depends on the amount of data stored in the shadowed folders. A 150GB drive
should have around 22GB of space allocated to this process, not 5.5GB.
--
Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
I deleted the existing restore points by disabling System Restore. When I
re-enabled (without rebooting) SR it was still only allocating 5.5GB (5.859
actually) total space. Free space on the 150GB Vista drive is 112GB.
Shouldn't this process have reset the System Restore space to its default
maximum size? Any idea what kind of thing might prevent SR from resetting?
The first restore point that I created manually only used 86MB (300MB
allocated) but a second restore point that was created automatically ate up
another 800MB on top of that (1.122GB total allocated). In between I'd
uninstalled some burning apps and games and enabled Vista's Telnet client
(which triggered the new restore point), none of which required rebooting.
When I manually created a third restore point it only consumed another 31MB.
Removed the Telnet client again and the next point that was auto-created
eventually consumed 270MB. Strangely, each time I ran "vssadmin list
shadowstorage" it increased the amount of space reported for Used Shadow
Copy Storage space by some small amount until it finally seemed to settle
(there was drive activity after restore point creation had been reported
finished so I was curious).
As an FYI, the computer is temporarily quad-booting, with 2 installs of
Windows 7, and I notice that SR in both of those are behaving similarly WRT
maximum allocated restore space. Both Win7 installs are on identical drive
sizes (48.8GB) and SR in both is only allocating 1.465GB maximum storage
space. Other than that coincidence(?) they don't appear to interact with
Vista's SR. XP is also on the computer on its own 150GB partition but the
other OS drives are hidden from it. There's also a 1TB drive for storage
which is excluded from any System Restore and a 7GB FAT32 recovery partition
that SR in Vista ignores.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hi,
Depends on the amount of data stored in the shadowed folders. A 150GB drive
should have around 22GB of space allocated to this process, not 5.5GB.
--
Best of Luck,
Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com