James Button wrote:
I would consider 14GB for the System Volume Information to be excessive. Are
you indexing everything, or do you hold a large restore history, wastebin etc
SVI has one directory - _restore{CCA15F78-7193-4CA6-8115-2B570DD6546C}
<file:///C:/System%20Volume%20Information/_restore%7BCCA15F78-7193-4CA6-8115-2B570DD6546C%7D/>
It contains several directories RP416 through RPO559. I'm guessing that
these are restore points. Is there a need to keep all of them?
Also - A single directory containing 32GB of documents could probably
benefit from being split to ease backup and other management
not least of which is the time taken for Windows Explorer to 'open' that ,
and the next directory level up
(If, as I suspect, your 32GB documents directory contains a mix of your data
and imported/acquired documents, then your recovery process would benefit
from splitting off your data - very few people have more 'own data' than
will fit on a DL DVD)
Data include documents, spreadsheets, databases, photos, videos and
music files.
A backup of your applications would be useful for fast system re-creation,
How does one do that?
If you keep just the OS, hardware and system management facilities on the OS
partition
( together with appropriate working space)
then a backup of that (after clearing out the temporary workfiles etc.
will probably pack onto a single DVD as well
So - recovery to a new hard drive would be
restore the OS partition ( as same size as it was when saved
Create partitions for your data and general applications
restore your data
restore your applications
re-install your essential applications
and you're up and running, probably in less than three hours
What's the difference between "restore your applications" and
"re-install your essential applications"?
Thanks.
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