Restore HDD Useage

Vista Home prem;32Bit

Pc is now 2 years old. Over the past 3 weeks I noticed daily HDD "used"
space decreasing by 3GB daily. From a prior question I understand this is as
a result of System Restore and I verified that by turning off Restore which
deletes all Restore Points...and sue enoungh I regained 20 plus GB.

I have run the vssadmin list shadowstorage and it shows that Max Restore
Storage is approx 90GB.....that seems like a lot of space to be allocated to
System Restore....and given currently I have 6 Restore Points dating back 6
days....letting it go to 90GB....I'll have 50 plus Restore Points that may
date back 45 plus days. This surely seems like a very bad Design.....given a
Restore Point 2 weeks or older may well be useless.

1) Looking at System Restore I see Restore Points dating back 6
days.....and it would seem to me having space to Restore back 5 to 7 days is
more than ample. In the time lenght a user would know if they had an issue
following and Update\Install etc. I surely don't feel I need to fill-up 90GB
with Restore points before Restore stops increasing its use of HDD space.
Any input as to what would be reasonable space to allocate? I know there is
a tool to decrease System Restore

2) PC is 2 years old and the increase jumped it seems overnight and
continues daily....what would have caused the sudden jump? Can the root
cause be corrected as opposed to reducing System Restore HDD Storage space?

 

Hi,

Hard to judge as you don't state what the size of the drive is. The default
is 15%, so, extrapolating backwards, if you have a ~600GB drive (which is
not unusual), 90GB being reserved would be normal. Yes, you can reduce the
size of the reserved space as long as you understand that doing so will
limit the number of points available.

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> Vista Home prem;32Bit
>
> Pc is now 2 years old. Over the past 3 weeks I noticed daily HDD "used"
> space decreasing by 3GB daily. From a prior question I understand this is
> as
> a result of System Restore and I verified that by turning off Restore
> which
> deletes all Restore Points...and sue enoungh I regained 20 plus GB.
>
> I have run the vssadmin list shadowstorage and it shows that Max Restore
> Storage is approx 90GB.....that seems like a lot of space to be allocated
> to
> System Restore....and given currently I have 6 Restore Points dating back
> 6
> days....letting it go to 90GB....I'll have 50 plus Restore Points that may
> date back 45 plus days. This surely seems like a very bad
> Design.....given a
> Restore Point 2 weeks or older may well be useless.
>
> 1) Looking at System Restore I see Restore Points dating back 6
> days.....and it would seem to me having space to Restore back 5 to 7 days
> is
> more than ample. In the time lenght a user would know if they had an
> issue
> following and UpdateInstall etc. I surely don't feel I need to fill-up
> 90GB
> with Restore points before Restore stops increasing its use of HDD space.
> Any input as to what would be reasonable space to allocate? I know there
> is
> a tool to decrease System Restore
>
> 2) PC is 2 years old and the increase jumped it seems overnight and
> continues daily....what would have caused the sudden jump? Can the root
> cause be corrected as opposed to reducing System Restore HDD Storage
> space? <!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->

 

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>
> Hard to judge as you don't state what the size of the drive is. The default
> is 15%, so, extrapolating backwards, if you have a ~600GB drive (which is
> not unusual), 90GB being reserved would be normal. Yes, you can reduce the
> size of the reserved space as long as you understand that doing so will
> limit the number of points available.<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->


besides that, bill has left the building.

why oh why do ppl crave 'new' over old,, 98se is still superior and can compute for ppl no matter
what.