System Volume Information

[Guest]

I have noticed that my System Volume Information folder is very big.
I cleared the restores and it went down to 600MB because it has to leave the
lastest.
However, after 4 days, it has already risen to 5GB in size.

My hard disk is 160GB capcacity.
How large should the folder be and will it rise to a certain point and then
stop?
What proportion of the drive does the folder take up.

 

[Rock]

I have noticed that my System Volume Information folder is very big.
I cleared the restores and it went down to 600MB because it has to leave
the
lastest.
However, after 4 days, it has already risen to 5GB in size.

My hard disk is 160GB capcacity.
How large should the folder be and will it rise to a certain point and
then
stop?
What proportion of the drive does the folder take up.

I believe the default is 15% of the drive. You can see what is used and the
maximum allocated by running the vssadmin command tool from an elevated
command prompt. Do vssadmin /? to see the options. With this you can also
limit the size allocated for Shadow copies using
vssadmin resize shadowstorage

For example to limit the size to 7GB on the D: volume the command would be:
vssadmin resize shadowstorage /on=D: /for=D: /maxsize=7GB

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

I believe the default to be roughly 12% of the drive. In your case this
would mean 19.6GB.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Guest]

I did the command:

List ShadowStorage

and the follow came up:

hadow Copy Storage association
For volume: (C\\?\Volume{96d66944-05f6-11dc-8728-806e6f6e6963}\
Shadow Copy Storage volume:
(C\\?\Volume{96d66944-05f6-11dc-8728-806e6f6e69
63}\
Used Shadow Copy Storage space: 637.688 MB
Allocated Shadow Copy Storage space: 857.906 MB
Maximum Shadow Copy Storage space: 10.932 GB

Does this mean the maximum folder size for System Volume Information is 10GB
or for a single backup or something. How can I see what it is currently set
to and what the current maximum amount is?

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

The last figure is the maximum size allocated for all of the backups, and
actually it should be higher. I stated 12%, but Rock is correct that it
should be around 15% (I was thinking about XP for some reason).

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

 

[Guest]

Why do you think it is smaller than you say it should be?
Do you think it will change?
I did a cleaned up system restore yesterday buts its up to 1GB in size now.