Re: VSS?

From	T <T@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32
Subject	Re: VSS?
Date	2025-07-30 16:59 -0700
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
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On 6/14/25 12:07 PM, Phil Ashby wrote:
> On 14/06/2025 19:14, T wrote:
>  > Hi All,
>  >
>  > I do not know if this is the right place to post this,
>  > but please suffer with it anyway.
>  >
>  > How do I make a shadow copy of a directory or directories,
>  > copy from it/them, then remove the shadow?
>  >
>  > Found a lot about what VSS is, but not a lot of how
>  > to use it.
>  >
>  > The best I could find was answer #2 on
>  >
>  > https://superuser.com/questions/1895377/create-a-non-persistent-shadow-
>  > copy-for-backups-on-windows-11-pro
>  >
>  > But it is powershell calls.  Is there a more direct way
>  > to do this without calling powershell?  API's maybe?
>  >
>  > Many thanks,
>  > -T
>  >
> There is a copy of, and a link to, the source for the Microsoft VShadow 
> command line tool, and some extra tooling here:
> 
> https://github.com/albertony/vss
> 
> All written in C++ and using the COM interfaces to VSS directly..
> 
> I presume you have been through this lot:
> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/vss/volume-shadow-copy- 
> service-portal
> 
> HTH,
> Phil.


Thank you!

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VSS? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2025-06-14 11:14 -0700
  Re: VSS? Phil Ashby <phil.eternal@ashbysoft.com> - 2025-06-14 20:07 +0100
    Re: VSS? T <T@invalid.invalid> - 2025-07-30 16:59 -0700

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