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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Shadow copy to clone system volume on Windows XP
I am looking for a program that uses shadow copy to copy the contents of a Windows XP system volume that is running.
I.e. I want to clone the system volume with the following snags:
(1) I want to be able to select which files to copy (i.e. not the…
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How to delete Volume Shadow Copies using C#?
I need to delete one or all shadow copies in Windows Server 2003. How I can do it using C#?
For example, I can write "vssadmin delete shadows /all" in cmd and all will be fine, but me need to do it automatically.
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ExposeLocally failed with COM error
I am following this article to create a snapshot using Windows VSS service and further taking it a step ahead by mounting it.
After searching I found a method ExposeSnapshot()to which I passed the required parameter as below
result =…
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VSS backups cause custom windows service to fail
I've built custom windows services in vb.net that run on a timer and look for files in a remote directory to process. On a few servers, they fail without any error at the same exact time, around 10:04PM when the VSS service fails. The service…
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Unable to Access Volume Shadow Copy Service Snapshot Volume
Hi I am having trouble getting the volume shadow copy service to work for my program written in C++ with QT. The snapshot is created successfully however I cannot access it either through my program or through the Windows run prompt (not sure if…
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Is there an open source alternative to Windows Volume Shadow Copy
Is there an open source alternative to Windows Volume Shadow Copy?
I need to keep previous versions of files in a directory
automatically without having to use a check in / check out
process or a traditional version control system.
Additionally, the…
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Book on Volume Shadow Copy Service API
I'm having trouble finding books on the Windows Volume Shadow Copy Service. Can anyone point me to a good book on the subject. I'm looking at the API from the point of view to write a VSS requestor.
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MySQL Support VSS (Volume Shadow Copy)?
I know that MS SQL supports VSS. But does MySQL support VSS too??
Thanks
Kevin
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How to write a Vss provider code that copy block changes
I want to write a Vss provider code that save the block changes to a volume
Where can I find information about this?
The example I have found on Internet performed only full copy of all data when a snapshot were requested
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With what API do you perform a read-consistent file operation in OS X, analogous to Windows Volume Shadow Service
We're writing a C++/Objective C app, runnable on OSX from versions 10.7 to present (10.11).
Under windows, there is the concept of a shadow file, which allows you read a file as it exists at a certain point in time, without having to worry about…
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Batch file: Automate VSS Snapshot checks
I'm looking for a way to create a VSS snapshot for all drives on a server, to ensure that the functionality is working as expected - after which i would need to delete the snapshots - so far I've been keeping it simple.
vssadmin create shadow…
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Reading a file without causing access denial to other processes
I've been thinking about writing a small specialized backup app, similar to newly introduced file history in Windows 8. The basic idea is to scan some directories every N hours for changed files and copy them to another volume. The problem is, some…
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What is uuid of IVssBackupComponentsEx4?
What is UUID of IVssBackupComponentsEx4?
I've looked all through MSDN site and did not find anything, also this documentation is not so good about VSS related components.
Regards.
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VShadow.exe for Vista
I need the VShadow or its equivalent for Vista (Business).
All the VShadows I am trying are giving errors. I need to use it from Command Prompt.
The procedure entry point ClusterGetVolumeNameForVolumeMountPoint could not be located in the dynamic…
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Why there is no VSS for sqlite?
The SQL Server implementation by Microsoft contains the VSS writer and other components with it to help it take backups without making a considerable impacy on performance.
But there is no such VSS capability built into Sqlite.
So I would like…
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