Restore points are huge

[pimptaddy]

Ok, Each restore point is roughly 30 gigs in size. This is excessive to say the least. There is no way I am gonna devote 100 gigs to have only three restore points. I don;t recall this being an issue in previous windows versions. The initial creation takes up about 500 megs which is the registry, windows profile and things like this, but the size balloons to 30 gigs when the file backup part takes over. I am simply not gonna need or use the previous verison crap that is stealing 25 gigs plus. Correct me if i am wrong, but shouldnt a restore point be around 1-2 gigs in size?

Any insight into what is making the restore points become so large?

 

[jfar]

Resize it in Windows Restore.


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

 

[richc46]

Are you certain that it is just restore points? Can it be shadow copies, system image and/or backup and restore. You can go to c drive>properties>disc cleanup>clean system files and you may get back 30 or so gigs, if shadow copies are included.

 

[Tews]

are you sure that you aren't talking about system images rather than restore points??

 

[richc46]

A record 3 anwers at once. Hi tews and Jfar.

 

[pimptaddy]

Resize it in Windows Restore.

so reducing the allocated size is gonna then make all future restore points smaller? making it say 10 gigs, that wont even hold one restore point then.

 

[pimptaddy]

Are you certain that it is just restore points? Can it be shadow copies, system image and/or backup and restore. You can go to c drive>properties>disc cleanup>clean system files and you may get back 30 or so gigs, if shadow copies are included.

just restore points. I have cleaned them out. I am not new to this, but this is quite odd

there are two images listed in the restore area, but they are invalid. they wont get deleted

 

[jfar]

What size is yours set to at the moment.?

 

[pimptaddy]

What size is yours set to at the moment.?

90 gigs to accommodate the huge restore points

 

[jfar]

Here is mine and I have never touched it.
IMO, you only need your last two Restore points, anything else is not needed .

 

[pimptaddy]

Here is mine and I have never touched it.
IMO, you only need your last two Restore points, anything else is not needed .


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i agree. 2-3 restore points is ideal. So what would make a restore point become so bloated? I have set the space for the restore points low and they have exceeded the size allocation and become huge.

 

[whs]

I am still not clear whether we talk about restore points or images. Restore points should be 250MB to 1GB (depending on the size of your system). Images, however, can be up to 60GB (at least that's what I have experienced with a fully loaded (Vista) system.

 

[jfar]

Well if it was my machine, I would delete them all except the last two, set it to the same as mine and keep your
eye on it for a couple of days. I don't know why it should go so high unless it was set high to begin with,
but you said you set it low.

 

[jfar]

Well the Op said Restore points.?

 

[pimptaddy]

Well the Op said Restore points.?

i see two images listed in restore when i click on the show more restore points, these images appear to be invalid as i have deleted all images before and when i click on the listed images in the restore list they say they are invalid.

 

[pimptaddy]

Well if it was my machine, I would delete them all except the last two, set it to the same as mine and keep your
eye on it for a couple of days. I don't know why it should go so high unless it was set high to begin with,
but you said you set it low.

one more thing. could the scrp script for creating manual restore points be the issue? It should be noted that all of my points are manual.

 

[jfar]

Well then I would delete all the restore points that you have, "if you can" and when all are deleted,
I would set it to what mine was reading and make a new restore point, and start afresh.

Just a thought, have you got TuneUp utillities or some registry cleaner installed.?

 

[Tews]

I just made a restore point for my system and it was only 75mb....something is definitely
wrong if yours are 30gb....

 

[pimptaddy]

Well then I would delete all the restore points that you have, "if you can" and when all are deleted,
I would set it to what mine was reading and make a new restore point, and start afresh.

Just a thought, have you got TuneUp utillities or some registry cleaner installed.?

yea, tuneup 2010 and registry mechanic installed

 

[jfar]

Well I had Tuneup installed Last year and I uninstalled it, it caused a bit of grief to my registry
and I remember it used to make a lot of Back ups, a lot of them, so maybe that could be your problem,
I'm not saying it is but I would think about it.

I would uninstall both of them for a month and see if there is any difference with your system,
I don't think you will even miss them, I haven't.