System Restore Information Folder keep filling up

[Tim]

Hi
At the moment we are having a problem with the C:\System Restore Information
filling up so it completly fills the Hard Discs. It is only set to 4Gb max
but it can fill upto 20Gb or whatever the free space there is available.

I have checked and the system restore is turned off and also the System
Volume Information still filling up even though system restore turned off
Windows Volume Shadow copy is not running either.

We are able to clear this file by enabling system restore and putting the
slider to the smallest amount and then turning System restore back on again,
but as we have many PCs that keeps doing this it takes ages.
Can anyone think of anything that can be causing this?

Thanks

 

[WTC]

Hi
At the moment we are having a problem with the C:\System Restore
Information filling up so it completly fills the Hard Discs. It is
only set to 4Gb max but it can fill upto 20Gb or whatever the free
space there is available.

I have checked and the system restore is turned off and also the
System Volume Information still filling up even though system restore
turned off Windows Volume Shadow copy is not running either.

We are able to clear this file by enabling system restore and putting
the slider to the smallest amount and then turning System restore
back on again, but as we have many PCs that keeps doing this it takes
ages. Can anyone think of anything that can be causing this?

How was Window XP deployed in your environment? Was the deployment from
a single sysprepped image? How long has this been happening?

Is the Windows XP machines joined to a domain? Are there any policies
set in place for System Restore?

Have you tried to repair System Restore? ie, 'sr.inf' from the
%windir%/INF folder?

 

[Tim]

How was Window XP deployed in your environment? Was the deployment from
a single sysprepped image? How long has this been happening?

Is the Windows XP machines joined to a domain? Are there any policies
set in place for System Restore?

Have you tried to repair System Restore? ie, 'sr.inf' from the
%windir%/INF folder?

At the moment we use Ghost to deploy the image, we do use sysprep to make
the image as well. We have had this problem for about 2 years now, we
thought it had gone last year but it has come back again.

We are also connected to a domain on all PC's as well, we did try to have a
policy to block it, but this has now been turned off as System Restore isnt
used

Ill have a look at that file, I havent looked at that file yet

Many thanks for your help

 

[Gerry]

Tim

Is the operating system Windows XP?

What firewall is being used?


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
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[Tim]

Hi

At the moment we have XP SP3 (Although it did it when we were on SP2 last
year as well)

We have a corporate Firewall on the network only, we dont have a firewall on
the PC's themselves
Thanks

 

[Gerry]

Tim

I thought your problem was one generated by certain versions of Zone Alarm.
How frequently are restore points being created?

I would reinstall System Restore. Use Ghost to backup. Do not use any
earlier images to restore the computer.
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/reinstall.html

In future before backing up I would carry out this procedure first.

Select Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Disk CleanUp to Empty
your Recycle Bin and Remove Temporary Internet Files. Also select Start, All
Programs, accessories, System Tools, Disk CleanUp, More Options, System
Restore and remove all but the latest System Restore point. Run Disk
Defragmenter.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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[Tim]

Hi Gerry
Thanks for the info on this, ill try this

Im not sure how reguarlly it does this, if you look at the system restore it
doesnt seem to appear there as it is turned off.

We have also just put a policy out to make sure that this is set to 0 to see
if this would make any difference as well.

Thanks

 

[WTC]

Hi Tim,

At the moment we use Ghost to deploy the image, we do use sysprep to
make the image as well. We have had this problem for about 2 years
now, we thought it had gone last year but it has come back again.

Have you considered the Ghost Image you deployed is borked? The reason
I say this is because you have the same problem on many systems that
was used by your Ghost image.

Anyways, try to repair System Restore on a test PC to if the problem is
corrected.

Navigate to %windir%/INF and right-click "sr.inf" to select Install.

This should repair System Restore. If the Test PC proves to be
successful after a few days of testing then you may want to run a logon
script to repair System Restore for all other machines on your network
that are affected.