System Restore Failure

[Grev]

System restore goes through all the actions of restoring
to a previous checkpoint including restart and opening of
windows. It then shows the message 'A restoration to
System checkpoint restore point failed'. This is a real
problem.

Grev

 

[Bill James]

The fix that usually solves that problem is to disable System Restore, reboot, then re-enable SR. Unfortunately you also lose all existing Restore Points with that process, so if you are needing to use it to solve a current problem you are out of luck.

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[djs]

x-no-archive: yes

Sounds like corruption in the System Volume Information folder or in the
RP itself. Seems to indicate that not relying on SR exclusively is a
good idea.

 

[Alex Nichol]

Sounds like corruption in the System Volume Information folder or in the
RP itself. Seems to indicate that not relying on SR exclusively is a
good idea.

I think it arises in two ways - one is someone trying to remove SR
points manually, or otherwise play with files in that SVI folder: answer
is don't. Second, I suspect that the logs it depends on can get in a
tangle if there is too much space allowed (12% of a drive is I think too
much on modern large drives). Only way out when it *is* fouled up is to
clean it out, and I would include a reboot with SR disabled and delete
the entire contents of the SVI folders. Then set the space allowed to
something reasonable - I use 500MB on my system partition, and do not
have it in use at all on data ones. And have had no troubles. Up to
1GB should be OK, and allow for getting on for a months worth of points