Windows 10: Restore point size limit set itself to 0?

Hello. I every now and then check my restore points, the limit by default was set to 5% roughly 8GB on Win 11 for me. Today I noticed that there was a Volsnap event in event viewer which mentioned deleting the restore points due to them being above the user imposed limit. Usually that's rather normal but upon checking the configured limit, the slider was set all the way to the left and it didn't show me a limit size in percent or GB whatsoever. Prior to this I had done a full scan with Defender as I regularly do for piece of mind. AFAIK the lowest limit that can be set by moving the slider t

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Losing restore points


Have you already ruled out that you are losing restore points because each new one would exceed the limit you've allocated for restore point storage? See Step 8 in Option 1 here: https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/3...dows-10-a.html

 

System Restore Point Questions

Thanks, Dave!

Suppose I go back to an earlier version of C: with the desired restore point, restore from it and create a restore point on D:, then reload the current C:. Will I be able to restore from that restore point on D:?

Step by step:

1. Enable Restore for D:
   
2. Back up the C: drive with Acronis.
   
3. Restore C: to an earlier date with the desired restore point, from the Acronis backup image.
   
4. Restore the system from the desired restore point.
   
5. See if Restore is still enabled for D:. If not, enable it there, with the same capacity as in step 1.
   
6. Disable Restore for C:.
   
7. Create a restore point. Since there's no availability on C:, it should be created on D:, and be identical to the desired restore point.
   
8. Now put C: back to the current version using the backup created in step 2.
   

Will the system now recognize that restore point on D: and let me restore from it?

(Edited to add the explanation, and step 4.)

 

what is the ideal size to save restore point?

as seen in this image, mine is set to save with this size limit. should i increase it? i ask because few weeks ago when i tried to use restore option to revert to time when pc was working fine, and got error message and said it couldnt use it...maybe because the size i set wasnt enough to save restore point?

i need to do it properly. ive decided to use external hard drive to save restore points becuase it has more memory than main drive.