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Volume Shadow Service (VSS), also called Volume Shadow Copy refers to a volume shapshot service built in to Microsoft Windows Operating Systems from XP or greater. Questions concerning the API should use this tag; you may also consider tagging your question Windows and the language of your choice.

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Reading the cow Shadow storage directly

How to read only the changed blocks from the shadow storage as illustrated here? http://macriumsoftware.files.wordpress.com/2012/11/reading_data_back.png I want to know if someone can share a sample how to read the cow Shadow storage directly from…
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Want example code for reading the VSS snapshot journal

Is there a way to read the VSS snapshot area directly on Windows? Assume that you have created a VSS snapshot; and want to read the snapshot to figure out: - which block was copied (the block reference to its origin) - the copied data (cow / saved…
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Why do I get "The procedure entry point CreateVssBackupComponentsInternal could not be located in the dynamic link library VSSAPI.DLL."

Hello everybody let me give you the background first: I'm working on a project that is build with vs2005 on a winxp sp3 with the windows sdk 7.0 and most important the hotfix, that is targeted to work from win xp (sp 0) -> windows 7. part of the…
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How to implement bare metal recovery for windows server os in c++

I tried to implement bare metal recovery for windows os machine. I thought of implementing it using VolumeShadowService (VSS). Till now I am able to take backup of entire system using vss and backupread and write functions and also completed restore…
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Getting Error code: -2146368511 [0x80110401] on executing Sample VSS Hardware provider setup

Both the solutions mentioned in "VSS Hardware provider" are not helpful. I executed following instructions to install VssSampleProvider Setup (refered from…
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Using Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) in Delphi

Does anyone have sample code to copy open (in-use and locked by another program) files using Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS) API? There was an article about this in The Delphi Magazine (September 2005). But that code is no longer available and even…
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Using wmi to get the VSS shadow copy's dos path

vssadmin list shadows show the dos path of every volume copy, in the following form: \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolumeShadowCopy4 Is there a way to do this using wmi? I'ved looked through Win32_ShadowCopy and experimented with it a bit, but…
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Use Volume Shadow Copy from Delphi with WMI Class Win32_ShadowCopy

Does anyone have any pointers to using the WMI class Win32_Shadowcopy to create a temporary ("Backup") shanshot of a volume, in Delphi? I have seen a generated unit…
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Persistent Shadow Copy in XP SP2?

I'm wondering if XP supports persistent shadow copying like Windows Vista/7 do. I read the wikipedia article about Shadow Copy and it had this paragraph (emphasis mine): The creation of persistent snapshots (multiple snapshots which remain …
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VSS Hardware provider

I've been trying to follow the instructions to install the example VSS hardware provider that comes with the Windows SDK. Unfortunately COM refuses to register the DLL, giving the following output: Unregistering the existing application... - Create…
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How to programmatically read items from a VSS backup drive?

I use VSS to backup to a backup drive. I'd like attach that drive on another machine and list all the backups on it and then list all the items within a particular backup. I know you can do it at the command prompt with the wbadmin tool using…
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Windows VSS service

I am a newbie and I am working on a driver that tracks creation/write/modification on files. Now I have been told to work on Volume snapshot. I have seen the code of VSS that comes with Windows SDK. But I have been informed to work on VSS at the…
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VB.Net: How To Display Previous Shadow Copy Versions of File Allowing User to Choose One

I'm writing an Excel file recovery program with VB.Net that tries to be a convenient place to gather and access Microsoft's recommended methods. If your interested in my probably kludgy, error filled, and lacking enough cleanup code it's here:…
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How to Exclude Files and Folders from Volume Shadow Copy (VSS) Backups

I've been using Volume Shadow Copy (VSS) to create backups of my files and folders. However, I've encountered a situation : I need to exclude specific files and folders from Microsoft built-in Volume shadow Copy to save storage space and time. Since…
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SqlServerWriter failing on running two vss restore in parallel

I'm trying to perform VSS restore of two different databases on the same host. Here is documentation of SQL on how the restore process works To perform VSS operations, I'm using the VSS requestor sample code provided by Microsoft When I do restore…
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