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Posted May 10, 2016
Just recently bumped into problems with my hard drive on my ~3 year old laptop -- it was completely full. Then it wasn't. Then it was again. Turned out it was restore points. (I think.) For some reason, it was set to use 50% of the drive (~140 GB) and there were restore points from well into last year. I cranked it down to 25%, and it still has an even dozen.

What is a reasonable percent of the drive to use? Is there a way to bump them off onto an external drive? How many do you try to keep? Or do you make periodic relocatable system images or something else?

Thanks!
Posted May 10, 2016
Maybe 5%,depends on the size of the drive.
Posted May 10, 2016
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Thorfinn: Just recently bumped into problems with my hard drive on my ~3 year old laptop -- it was completely full. Then it wasn't. Then it was again. Turned out it was restore points. (I think.) For some reason, it was set to use 50% of the drive (~140 GB) and there were restore points from well into last year. I cranked it down to 25%, and it still has an even dozen.

What is a reasonable percent of the drive to use? Is there a way to bump them off onto an external drive? How many do you try to keep? Or do you make periodic relocatable system images or something else?

Thanks!
To be honest I never used them up until last install when I took one at install. They take up space. Don't know how effective they are, can reinstall windows and all drivers in an hour or so, couple.of cds, so not really sure what they are useful for?
Posted May 10, 2016
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Thorfinn: Just recently bumped into problems with my hard drive on my ~3 year old laptop -- it was completely full. Then it wasn't. Then it was again. Turned out it was restore points. (I think.) For some reason, it was set to use 50% of the drive (~140 GB) and there were restore points from well into last year. I cranked it down to 25%, and it still has an even dozen.

What is a reasonable percent of the drive to use? Is there a way to bump them off onto an external drive? How many do you try to keep? Or do you make periodic relocatable system images or something else?

Thanks!
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nightcraw1er.488: To be honest I never used them up until last install when I took one at install. They take up space. Don't know how effective they are, can reinstall windows and all drivers in an hour or so, couple.of cds, so not really sure what they are useful for?
It was very useful once,but I think nowadays it's not necessary and I could be wrong.
Posted May 10, 2016
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Thorfinn: What is a reasonable percent of the drive to use? Is there a way to bump them off onto an external drive? How many do you try to keep? Or do you make periodic relocatable system images or something else?

Thanks!
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nightcraw1er.488: To be honest I never used them up until last install when I took one at install. They take up space. Don't know how effective they are, can reinstall windows and all drivers in an hour or so, couple.of cds, so not really sure what they are useful for?
Same here. I wouldn't trust it to restore everything properly, and it could end up more hassle than it's worth. I keep Windows on a separate partition, and should anything happen I find it much easier to just format it and re-install Windows.
Posted May 10, 2016
I set it to 20 Gb for a month of daily checkpoints.
Restoring fixed a pair of unknown annoyances in a few minutes.
Post edited May 10, 2016 by phaolo
Posted May 10, 2016
*checks* I only have it on for the system partition and it's at 3%. Guess it's the default, as I don't recall messing with it. Also didn't use it and wouldn't really trust it, as if something's bad enough to require it I'm thinking it'd be useful to be able to boot back up but then I wouldn't be so sure it'll be fine enough to keep going without reinstalling at least at the first convenient opportunity. So much better not to need them, if possible.
Still, always a good idea to have at least a couple around, in case of a bad update or malware.
Posted May 10, 2016
I have no idea how it got set to 50%. I know I never did it. I didn't even know about the setting. But now all is good.

Thanks, all!
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