Does such an application exist? A restore point preserver ?
restore points deleted
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mo713
, Dec 12 2010 08:56 AM
#1
Posted 12 December 2010 - 08:56 AM
Does such an application exist? A restore point preserver ?
#2
Posted 12 December 2010 - 03:16 PM
Wouldn't really help anything.
System Restore is really fickle when it wants to be, and by design no restore point lasts forever. By default they last either until the allocated space for System Restore is full, 90 days have passed, or the points are manually purged, whichever happens first first.
If you want to preserve the state of the system at a specific point in time, your best bet would be to use an imaging problem such as Norton Ghost or Acronis and take a copy to an external drive.
System Restore is really fickle when it wants to be, and by design no restore point lasts forever. By default they last either until the allocated space for System Restore is full, 90 days have passed, or the points are manually purged, whichever happens first first.
If you want to preserve the state of the system at a specific point in time, your best bet would be to use an imaging problem such as Norton Ghost or Acronis and take a copy to an external drive.
#3
Posted 12 December 2010 - 04:04 PM
I realize it wouldn't be a perfect cure, but at least it would prevent the deletion of recent restore points as a deliberate sabotage by rogue software. In other words, I don't want the restore points to go away until *I* am ready, or until the system does it under the normal rules for purging.
I don't want some rogue program to come in, delete the good restore points, and then start messing things up and there is no longer a restore point to revert to .
I don't want some rogue program to come in, delete the good restore points, and then start messing things up and there is no longer a restore point to revert to .
#4
Posted 13 December 2010 - 04:51 PM
I appreciate what you're saying, but System Restore is as it is in XP and that's what we have to work with.
In any case, a roll-back with Restore doesn't guarantee to fix anything anyway. With some infections you can't even get that far to run it.
In any case, a roll-back with Restore doesn't guarantee to fix anything anyway. With some infections you can't even get that far to run it.
#5
Posted 15 December 2010 - 11:55 AM
Furthermore, a System Restore Point could itself contain malware which was "backed up" along with everything else. So whenever you're cleaning up a malware infection, that cleanup should always include deleting all restore points to avoid the risk of restoring malware.
A much more reliable form of total system backup (which doesn't get automatically deleted) is to create an 'image' of the C: drive on a second hard drive (internal or external) using disk-imaging software (after making sure your system is malware-free first of course).
A much more reliable form of total system backup (which doesn't get automatically deleted) is to create an 'image' of the C: drive on a second hard drive (internal or external) using disk-imaging software (after making sure your system is malware-free first of course).
Edited by phillipcorcoran, 15 December 2010 - 11:59 AM.
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