saving older restore points

The System Protection on Vista deletes older restore points. Is it possible for me to save one of the older restore points (a point in which i KNOW that the computer was perfectly fine)?

 

this was pertaining to first in first out and the disk size given to the restore mechanism

u can either expand the size of the restore section or MANUALLY saved the one that u wanted (meaning deleting the ones that u do not need), thus giving more space for the next automatic restore point.

cheers ...

 

How would you go about manually saving one, or for that matter deleting specific restore points. I don't recall seeing any sort of maintenance screen for that.

Gary

 

I don't see any valid reason for doing this. The number of restore points saved within the default disk space should be more than enough to restore your system to a perfect working condition.

This question is kinda funny because people here want to delete the restore points/ want to reduce the default 15% disk space used by system restore.

 

And you would know this how??? There are any number of scenarios where this might be valid. For example, maybe this person is hired as a beta tester for video drivers and is testing a dozen iterations a day. I can definitely see a case to be made for wanting to save off a specific restore point. I do it all the time, but not using System Restore. I use Ghost to create an image of a known good stable platform.

Gary

 

my bad, thx for the head up -
it works as design, meaning the best one could do is saving the most recent restore and zap out the rest for saving space for next restore

cheers ...

 

Yes, it's impossible I'm afraid. System restore is not a backup file of your system but a file that only reflects the actual changes made by an installation etc. To get back to this "good" restore point that you want to use windows needs access to the changes made after that restore point, so you can't even delete later restore points to keep room for this "good" one.

 

I have a question regarding restore points. When a restore point is created how does it work exactly? Does it create a backup copy of the registry prior to installing the software?

And when you restore a given restore point is the software you installed completely removed from the system from the drive including any entries to the registry? I don't use restore points but have always been curious as to how it really works.

 

System restore faq:

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Wi...3b8e-3379-46c1-b479-05b30d6fb3f01033.mspx#EIE

 

Thanks for the reply but the FAQ had nothing to do with system restore.

The MS link really didn't answer my question either but again thanks for replying.

 

The EAQ only showed up as a link because of the automated link genereation of this forum. The fourm automatically links certain key words. It was not added by kedu.

I think the Microsoft link DID answer your question:

Gary

 

Actually what I really wanted to know was the chain of events like what starts to happen when your system invokes a system restore. And does the system restore point creates a complete backup of the registry? Also what chain of events happen when you load a restore point? I just found general information in the MS link but if that's all that's available I guess it will have to suffice.

I was just asking out of curiosity because usually a SR point is fairly large in size.

 

I know it does not keep a complete registry backup, only a "delta" i.e. what has changed. As far as the chainof events I don't know the specifics.

Gary

 

some good reads regarding windows restore points

http://128.175.24.251/forensics/restorepoints.htm

http://www.ediscovery.co.nz/wip/srp.html

cheers ...