Jan 25 2011 2:08PM GMT

System Restore Points pt 2

Richard Siddaway Profile: Richard Siddaway

We have seen how to discover the available restore points. What about creating one.

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function new-systemrestorepoint {
[CmdletBinding()]
param (
[string]$computername=“.”,
[string]$description=“Testing123”
) $test = Test-Connection -ComputerName $computername -Count 1
if (-not ($test)){Throw “Computer $computername not reachable”

}

$sr = [wmiclass]“\\$computername\root\default:SystemRestore”
$sr.CreateRestorePoint($description, 0, 100)
}

We need to use [wmiclass] to create a new instance of the SystemRestore class. We can then use the CreateRestorePoint method with the description we’ve input as a parameter. The other paarmeters define it as an application install and begin system change respectively. This are generic enough to be left as is. They can be made parameters if required