shadow copy on windows xp system

Question

hello, I'm using vshadow on windows xp, when I create snapshot like this using vshadow.exe -wait C: E: F:

vshadow.exe -wait C: E: F:

VSHADOW.EXE 2.2 - Volume Shadow Copy sample client

Copyright (C) 2005 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

(Option: Wait on finish)

(Option: Create shadow copy set)

(Gathering writer metadata...)

(Waiting for the asynchronous operation to finish...)

Initialize writer metadata ...

Discover directly excluded components ...

• Excluding writer 'MSDEWriter' since it has no selected components for restore.

Discover components that reside outside the shadow set ...

Discover all excluded components ...

Discover excluded writers ...

Discover explicitly included components ...

Verifying explicitly specified writers/components ...

Select explicitly included components ...

* Writer 'Microsoft Writer (Bootable State)':

• Add component \COM+ Registration Database
• Add component \Registry

* Writer 'Microsoft Writer (Service State)':

• Add component \Content Indexing Service
• Add component \Config Directory
• Add component \Event Logs

* Writer 'WMI Writer':

• Add component \WMI

Creating shadow set {c4ec159c-d02c-4154-8464-3d52b1955264} ...

• Adding volume \?\Volume{429eb3ee-b79e-11ef-bf30-806d6172696f}\ [C:] to the s

hadow set...

• Adding volume \?\Volume{429eb3ef-b79e-11ef-bf30-806d6172696f}\ [E:] to the s

hadow set...

• Adding volume \?\Volume{429eb3f0-b79e-11ef-bf30-806d6172696f}\ [F:] to the s

hadow set...

Preparing for backup ...

(Waiting for the asynchronous operation to finish...)

(Waiting for the asynchronous operation to finish...)

Creating the shadow (DoSnapshotSet) ...

(Waiting for the asynchronous operation to finish...)

Error during the last asynchronous operation.

• Returned HRESULT = 0x80042306
• Error text: VSS_E_PROVIDER_VETO
• Please re-run VSHADOW.EXE with the /tracing option to get more details

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I find this version vshadow not like others vshadow on windows 2003 and higher version.

there is not a method to expose the snapshot like vshadow -el ?

how can I use this snapshot when I write an app reading the snapshot? thanks a lot.

Answer 1

Hi,

I don't have a Windows XP machine now, however, the vshadow tool is for Windows Vista or later so this could be a limitation of Windows XP.