Solved How do I do that Windows will make restore points automatically

[sharon122]

How do I do that Windows will make restore points automatically every day?

Thanks.

 

[derekimo]

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.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/67114-system-restore-point-create-system-startup.html

 

[Thorsen]

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:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/330-system-protection-turn-off.html

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:

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/335-system-protection-change-disk-space-usage.html

also what Derekimo suggested

 

[kado897]

If you don't want to do a RP every time you start your computer you can of course use the task scheduler to do it as often as you want. I have a task to do one every day at 12:30.

 

[Mark Phelps]

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.

 

[kado897]

A lot of installs and uninstalls don't create an RP plus previous versions.

 

[mjf]

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 support this view.
Restore points have let me down more than once. I rely on file/folder backups and imaging.

 

[kado897]

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 support this view.
Restore points have let me down more than once. I rely on file/folder backups and imaging.

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.

 

[mjf]

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.

 

[kado897]

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.

 

[mjf]

I reimage quite frequently (~once a month). It gives me the confidence to try and learn things I would otherwise be too conservative to attempt.

 

[kado897]

I reimage quite frequently (~once a month). It gives me the confidence to try and learn things I would otherwise be too conservative to attempt.

If I need to try anything that might cause problems I do it in a VM first.

 

[mjf]

I reimage quite frequently (~once a month). It gives me the confidence to try and learn things I would otherwise be too conservative to attempt.

If I need to try anything that might cause problems I do it in a VM first.

We could go on forever but...
A VM is not a complete substitute for the real operational environment and in my case reimaging is so fast.
The fact that I have reimaged full systems so often to existing and new HDDs using both Windows and Macrium also gives me some confidence I am providing imaging advice that I have learned from personal experience.

 

[kado897]

I reimage quite frequently (~once a month). It gives me the confidence to try and learn things I would otherwise be too conservative to attempt.

If I need to try anything that might cause problems I do it in a VM first.

We could go on forever but...
A VM is not a complete substitute for the real operational environment and in my case reimaging is so fast.
The fact that I have reimaged full systems so often to existing and new HDDs using both Windows and Macrium also gives me some confidence I am providing imaging advice that I have learned from personal experience.

Oh I don't say that I haven't reimaged. I have several times with both Windows and Macrium but I prefer to do it only when needed as it is not without risk.

 

[mjf]

I have reimaged over 30 times on my 2 PCs and never had a problem. Lucky maybe but for me that's statistically very low risk. Hardware failures aside, the chance that I couldn't recover any of my images would be close to zero.

Edit: Let me get back to the core issue I am attempting to address that's related to the thread.
Restore points have let me down badly.
Images have never let me down.

 

[kado897]

Yes and I suppose with frequent imaging bringing the system fully back up to date is not so time consuming. It is one of the reasons I am experimenting with the daily differentials. I still prefer not to reimage if I don't need to though.

I also do an sfc /scannow before each image as I have been caught out in the past with images having the problem I am trying to resolve.