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How do I do that Windows will make restore points automatically
How do I do that Windows will make restore points automatically every day?
Thanks.
How do I do that Windows will make restore points automatically every day?
Thanks.
How about something like this? Two different methods to create one at startup.
System Restore Point : Create at System Startup
Your computer should be set up by default to make restore points, but I would not do everyday. the reason is the restore points take up a bit of space and you will loose the oldest ones when it reaches its limit. You can use this tutorial to check if system protection is turned on or not:
System Protection - Turn On or Off
If you have a big enough hard drive to devote a good bit of space to the restore points then you could change the amount of space by following this tutorial:
System Protection - Change Disk Space Usage
also what Derekimo suggested
Last edited by Thorsen; 20 Oct 2011 at 09:51. Reason: Derekimo beat me to it
I know it's none of my business -- but I'm curious as to WHY you want to create daily RPs. If you're seeing this as some form of Windows backup, then you've been mislead because that is not what System Restore does. It saves versions of operating system files and the registry and other items. It does not save your settings (as far as I know) or your data files.
I used to do a lot of experimenting with apps and other stuff in the past and learned the hard way that System Restore is not a backup solution.
So, if what you really want is to save daily backups of your files, then you need to consider a different approach.
I also image frequently but a daily image is too often and takes a lot of space. Daily RPs give you a finer granularity and for me work more often than not. As I mentioned earlier previous version are also useful for recovering older versions of files and recently deleted files which are no longer in the recycle bin.
I never said not to use restore points and accept that many people in fact do use them in a limited way. They are no substitute for a complete backup strategy and for me they play a small role.
A backup strategy depends on purpose. For me:
1) Daily file/folder backups (generally incremental). Used synchronized backup if desired.
2) Weekly images or prior to a significant system reconfiguration such as a driver installation or major installed software update. I never suggested daily imaging. But even that may be fine for some. With a USB external HDD a 40GB image takes me ~10min.
3) Keep appropriate older images to suite your purpose periodically deleting weeklies.
4) Rely on redundancy. Keep images on more than one external HDD and use a different secondary backup imaging software less frequently in case your primary software fails. In my case I use
Primary: Windows inbuilt imaging
Secondary: Macrium Reflect free
Hopefully that's specific enough.
Edit: If the OP wishes to make routine daily restore points regardless, the question I believe has been answered.
Last edited by mjf; 21 Oct 2011 at 12:25. Reason: Edit:
1. Weekend Macrium image of OS partitions (and fast moving data) to backup disk 1
2. Midweek Windows image to backup disk 2
3. Archive Data Files selective backups as and when.
4. NAS files synced on backup disks (I have had problems with the NAS).
I don't really trust long incremental backup chains and use differential instead where needed.
I am currently trying augmenting my weekly Macrium images with daily differentials but I've only been going for two weeks with that so it's work in progress and I haven't needed to restore yet.
If that works maybe I will cut down on the daily RP.