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Volume Shadow Copy Service SDK Released
Microsoft has released an SDK for its Volume Shadow Copy service, a feature of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 that facilitate communications between applications and storage systems. The most common use being to keep backups of changed and deleted files for later retrieval. This SDK allows developers to build on the VSS architecture with their own requestors and providers.You can use this application [VSHADOW sample app] to exercise most of the VSS infrastructure, like creating shadow copies, or assigning drive letters to them. VSHADOW also has the ability to import hardware shadows, or selecting VSS components for backup/restore.
VSHADOW is a console application. The set of VSHADOW command-line options depends on the operating system. Note also that there are two versions of VSHADOW, one compiled for XP and another one for server:
1) For Windows XP you can:
- create, delete, query non-persistent shadow copies
- enumerate writers and their components
- select components for backup/restore, notify writers.
- executing a backup/restore CMD script
2) For Windows Server 2003, all of the above plus:
- Assigning a drive letter, a mount point or a share name to a shadow copy.
- Creating persistent vs. non-persistent shadow copies
- Creating shadow copies without involving writers.
- Hardware shadow copies - creation, import, break, deletion. (only for Advanced Server or Datacenter SKUs) To get more information on the SDK, check out Adi Oltean's Blog. To download the SDK, click here.
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