When does System Restore refuse to put Restore Point down?

Hi Bert:

Your comprehensive suggestions are much appreciated. I have followed your
suggestions and the machine made multiple Restore Points (every hour
setting). The next day, today, after the machine shut down for the night
there are no Restore Points, all have been deleted overnight. This is
typical of my problem. Can make multiple restore poiints on day one but
after an overnight shutdown all are gone. Event Viewer/System shows the
following at about 1700h yesterday "
The System Restore service has been suspended because there is not enough
disk space available on the drive
\\?\Volume{92c3ffeb-0d3d-11d9-9650-806d6172696f}\. System Restore will
automatically resume service once at least 200 MB of free disk space is
available on the system drive.

At startup today in Event Viewer/System the following shows

The System Restore service has resumed monitoring due to space freed on the
system drive.

Only the partition on drive C is being monitoired by SR and the free space
on the drive is shown as 11.65GB. As only the C: partition is monitored by
SR I am assuming the reference

\\?\Volume{92c3ffeb-0d3d-11d9-9650-806d6172696f}\.

relates to the C: partition although the designator \\?\ seems strange. Any
suggestions on how to solve this will be appreciated.




----- Original Message -----
From: "Bert Kinney"
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.perform_maintain
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 6:50 PM
Subject: When does System Restore refuse to put Restore Point down?


Hi Edward,

Yes run the RestorePointFrequency.vbs script. Make sure the frequency is
set to no more than 24 hours.

If the Disk Cleanup utility is being used, make sure clean up under System
Restore is unchecked on the More Options tab. Having this checked will
remove all restore points except the most recent one.

Perform this test:
1. Confirm that Task Scheduler Service is running.
a. Click Start, click Run, and then type CMD then press enter.
b. Type Net Start at the command prompt and press enter to make sure
that the Task Scheduler service is up and running.
2. Disable and re-enable system restore to delete all the restore points
on the system.
3. Turn off SR on all partitions/drives other than the one Windows is
installed on.
4. Reduce the "Disk space usage" to just under 1GB.
5. Open My Computer and right click on the drive where Windows is
installed and SR is monitoring, then click properties. Confirm that the
free disk space is over 10gbs as noted earlier.
In SR reduce the "Disk space usage" to just under 1GB.
6. Turn off the screen saver, and adjust the power management options so
the system will not go into standby or hibernate.
7. Use the RestorePointFrequency.vbs script and set the frequency to 1
hour. Leave the system unattended for 1 hour, then check SR for an
automatic RP. Restore points are only created during idle time; for
example, when there is no mouse, keyboard, or disk i/o activity.
8. Check the event viewer to see if there are any events denoting Restore
points being purged.

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Regards,
Bert Kinney [MS-MVP DTS]
http://dts-l.org/

Edward W. Thompson wrote:
My thanks to you and Bert for your replies. Unfortunately I have tried
all the methods suggested
without result. I run KAV and NOD32 as AVPs and
CWShredder, Spybot S&D, Ad Aware and SpyBlaster so I
think I have as much protection as is available against
'nasties, as there is. I have also run on line scanners
on the machine and as far as I can determine the the
machine is 'clean'. As far as actual free space is
concerned the 10GB plus free is the space free on
partition. I take your point re the need to create
restore points for partitions containing data and program
files.
I haven't have yet tried XPSystem
RestorePointFrequency.vbs but will do so.
This problem, while it seems rare is not unique. I have
seen two other references to the same problem but no
solution so far. As I create daily copies of the
Registry using ERUNT the problem for me is an annoyance
rather than 'critical'.
Once more thanks to you and Bert for your kind advice.


"Gerry Cornell" wrote
System Restore will create Restore Points for each and
every drive / partition unless told otherwise. As
Restore Points essentially only contain information
relating to the windows system there is little point
creating Restore Points for drives / partitions only
containing programme files and or data files. The way you have phrased
your message infers that your
10 gb plus free space is spread across all drives /
partitions. However, only the free space on the
partition containing your Windows operating system will
be taken into account in determining whether it is
possible to create restore points. How large is the
partition containing the windows operating system and
how large is the free space on that partition. If I have deduced the
cause of your problem properly it
may be possible to resolve your problem by moving
folders / files to another partition. Where are your
temporary internet files and your My Documents located?
Also where is your Outlook Express store folder? How much drive space is
allocated to System Restore for
your windows partition -System Restore -Settings.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry

"Edward W. Thompson" wrote
System Restore does not automatically create Restore
Points for me as the vent Log 'claims' I have
insufficient space. All partitions and drives have
10GB plus free space. Have tried reloading SR but have
not yet been able to solve the problem. Any
suggestions? I can create Restore Points manually, any
number on any day, but all but one are deleted after
24 hours presumeably by FIFO.