I quite often RnD stuff on my Rig or VM's for testing and needed a way to make sure I could be up and running should I FUBAR the PC or not like the change(s) I made. Restore Points were naturally a faster recovery method than imaging a new PC by far. Through the GUI you can make as many restore points as you want but through a CLi unfortunately only one Restore Point can be made per day. Your PC may have already made one and you wouldn't have even known it due to an install or update. To be able to make an unlimited amount of Restore Points via a CLi you will need to massage that Registry into bending to your will. As much as I want to run everything via PowerShell 7.X.X, the CheckPoint-Computer is a PS 5.1 only CMDlet.
Once I sorted that out, I figured, you can never have too many backups, right? I have created a manual restore point script for when I'm feeling fancy and want to try and break stuff as well as a task scheduler import to run Restore Points on a schedule and a check to see if it completed the restore point.
How do you handle backups? Do you create Restore Points?
If you are interested, please check out my Restore Point Scripts in my PowerShell Repo here on GItHub.
I have also created several template scripts for next time I need to Get, Add, or Remove a Reg Value or Key/DWORD access and change the Registry also found in my Github here.
Hope you can get some use out of them too!
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