Re: W10 - System Restore Switched off?
Originally Posted by
Bruce
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That's my way too except the cloud is a couple of NASs.
I do create restore points occasionally but as you say programs and operating systems are easy to replace however
I wish it was as easy as replacing the system and apps on a new phone.
I do too Bruce, because the very odd time things have got bad enough in my experience to need system restore it hasn't worked and a full reinstall has been needed any way.
And I've built my own systems for a few decades or more, so I know my way around.
Windoze big problem has always been that it slows down over time because it's a budgerigar for using space needlessly, space that even the best of habits and applications doesn't completely recover.
There's quite a big section of Windoze users who advocate a complete wipe and reinstall at regular intervals for that reason.
Thankfully it is easy nowadays to back up information so that it's there if a system crashes, and you don't need anything fancy to do that.
To aid that I was long ago advised to keep all my data and files seperate from the OS, so I always have a "saved" folder which is then subdivided as required.
NAS's are great - but I'm reluctant here because of the number of power cuts we have.
So I have a second SSD in my NUC (the main is an MVME M2) PLUS three (yes, three) seperate portable hard drives; one permanently connected to my router (by USB3 so it's plenty fast enough); one connected permanently by USB3 to my NUC; and the other (the smallest) as a portable USB backup - and ALL with a routine for regular backup.
It's not overkill if it works, and we know discs fail - been there & done that.
So at least 3 copies has been my minimum for years and that policy has saved me so much time over the years as well as making building a new system (like buying a new PC) far, far easier.
Even big capacity portable disks are cheap nowadays (6TB are only just over £100 for example) so the one connected to the router has a copy backup from OH's lappy and one from son's lappy too, with plenty space to spare..
I tend to back up files myself and only use Windoze restore points very occasionally and it's backup never because of the way it hogs both space and resources, and my system is like this because a friend who was a software developer advised me many years ago saying that trying system recovery is just one resort but that I needed more.
Since he got poached by a Yank co to emigrate with a quarter-million-pound "golden hello" before his ruddy wages even, I figured he was smart enough to know what he was talking about.