Automatically Create System Restore Point on Schedule - Working but no restore point


aagha

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On Sep. 24, 2022, I implemented this process for automatic, daily system restore points:


It seems to have been working flawlessly--even after I created for the first couple of days I checked, and restore points were being created.

However, I went to check today since I NEEDED a restore point, and was shocked to see:

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Checking the Task Scheduler logs, they seem to be getting created every day without an error(!):

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What's happening? Where are these being stored/created, and is here a way to tell System Restore to find these?

UPDATE:

On further investigation, seems these are not being created:

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Further validation:

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In which case, I have no idea what the heck the Task Scheduler is doing and why it's saying it's successful.
 
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I followed Brink's tutorial on a fresh W11 VM image. Checkpoint-Computer doesn't work out of the box, because Enable-ComputerRestore wasn't already set.

1. Run the command manually to see if you get any errors:
Code:
Checkpoint-Computer -Description "Automatic Restore Point" -RestorePointType MODIFY_SETTINGS

Enable-ComputerRestore -Drive "C:\"
Checkpoint-Computer -Description "Automatic Restore Point" -RestorePointType MODIFY_SETTINGS
Get-ComputerRestorePoint

2. Operational codes 1 & 2 imply your task failed for some reason. Probably because you didn't enter the correct command line?
 

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