I have an issue with Volume Shadow Copies (VSS). This issue started a few days ago. I’ve tried MANY things from Google but cannot find a solution. What’s frustrating (and surprising) is that even a...

I am attempting to create and access a Volume Shadow Copy snapshot using the Windows Power Shell in Windows 7. I found that I can create snapshots using the following via a previous superuser quest...

When a Restore Point is created, Windows starts monitoring the volume and any changes are recorded in a proprietory diff file inside System Volume Information folder. Thorough VSS-SDK api, we can ...

after creating a VSS snapshot I'd like to be able to query the USN journal. Is this possible or is the USN journal not accessible from a VSS snapshot? my goal is to be able to use the USN journal ...

I'm working on a remote backup solution in python. The server part will run on Unix/Linux because it will use hard links for efficient incremental backups. The client part, however, will have to r...

Developing a VSS writer app: see this error during backup, initiated by windows backup tool, is there defined error codes for 2155348129 from Microsoft? The backup operation that started at '‎20...

I am currently creating a backup application where we need a way to read files that are in use by other applications and we also want to minimize the locking the we incur on the users' files. Using...

Is there a consolidated list of GUIDs for well known VSS writers available somewhere? At least the Microsoft ones like System State, Exchange, SQL, Sharepoint etc.

Microsoft provides a way of mounting a read-only snapshot as a volume using their vshadow program. However, it does not provide a way to unmount the snapshot (I wonder what would happen if I delete...