Risks of using old System Restore points?

[stufis]

While helping me out on the 10th, Noel noted that it can
be a bit dangerous to select an SR point thirty days
earlier.

Question...why is that? In this case, I chose it because I
was unsure when the problems arose and I wanted to be
quite sure I was getting far enough away to correct things.

TIA!

[Mike M]

Why? Do you know every change you made to your system in that thirty day
period that has been undone and that now needs to be repaired? Another
problem of rolling back so far is that the amount of data to be archived
during the rollback could have exceeded the space allocated to the restore
archive meaning that if you had had problems you would not have been unable to
undo or rollback the restore.
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP



stufis > wrote:

> While helping me out on the 10th, Noel noted that it can
> be a bit dangerous to select an SR point thirty days
> earlier.
>
> Question...why is that? In this case, I chose it because I
> was unsure when the problems arose and I wanted to be
> quite sure I was getting far enough away to correct things.
>
> TIA!

[stufis]

n/m
>-----Original Message-----
>Why? Do you know every change you made to your system in
that thirty day
>period that has been undone and that now needs to be
repaired? Another
>problem of rolling back so far is that the amount of data
to be archived
>during the rollback could have exceeded the space
allocated to the restore
>archive meaning that if you had had problems you would
not have been unable to
>undo or rollback the restore.
>--
>Mike Maltby MS-MVP

>
>
>stufis > wrote:
>
>> While helping me out on the 10th, Noel noted that it can
>> be a bit dangerous to select an SR point thirty days
>> earlier.
>>
>> Question...why is that? In this case, I chose it
because I
>> was unsure when the problems arose and I wanted to be
>> quite sure I was getting far enough away to correct
things.
>>
>> TIA!
>
>
>.
>

[Mike M]

No problem although you did have me confused for a moment as I hadn't seen the
change in the subject line. :-)
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP



stufis > wrote:

> n/m

[stufis]

....to slip one by you folks! I take a little bit of
comfort in almost sneaking that one by you 8^)...

>-----Original Message-----
>No problem although you did have me confused for a moment
as I hadn't seen the
>change in the subject line. :-)
>--
>Mike Maltby MS-MVP

>
>
>stufis > wrote:
>
>> n/m
>
>
>.
>

[Mike M]

<VVBG>


stufis > wrote:

> ...to slip one by you folks! I take a little bit of
> comfort in almost sneaking that one by you 8^)...