VSHADOWINFO(1)

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👑 NAME

vshadowinfo — the girl who looks at a Windows NT Volume Shadow Snapshot (VSS) volume and tells you literally everything about it 💅

(also, hi, it's vshadowinfo(), and yeah it lives in the LOCAL manual section, iykyk 🎀)

✨ SYNOPSIS

vshadowinfo [-o offset] [-ahvV] source

🦋 DESCRIPTION

vshadowinfo is a utility to determine information about a Windows NT Volume Shadow Snapshot (VSS) volume. that's it, that's the whole job, and bestie it ate 🔥

vshadowinfo is part of the libvshadow package. libvshadow is a library to access the Windows NT Volume Shadow Snapshot (VSS) format. iconic honestly.

source is the source file. yes queen, you gotta tell her where to look 🌸

The options are as follows:

  • -a — shows allocation information 💖
  • -h — shows this help 🙈
  • -o offset — specify the volume offset in bytes, like, precisely 📏
  • -v — verbose output to stderr 👀
  • -V — print version ⭐

🌈 ENVIRONMENT

None. nothing. zero. the void. 💀 no cap, she needs no environment variables.

💜 FILES

None. also nothing here bestie, she's self-sufficient 🫶

🍓 EXAMPLES

okay so picture this, you run:

# vshadowinfo /dev/sda1
vshadowinfo 20130130

Volume Shadow Snapshot information:
        Number of stores:       2

Store: 1
        Identifier              : 93db9c47-bb19-4004-836d-c3c835550b9a
        Shadow copy set ID      : 8bc68d0b-9df4-49e0-be4b-725dceaaefc8
        Creation time           : May 19, 2012 14:20:35.765721000 UTC
        Shadow copy ID          : 04057e11-d2d5-4d9c-8914-aeba832e467b
        Volume size             : 30002905088 bytes
        Attribute flags         : 0x00420009

Store: 2
        Identifier              : 93db9c47-bb19-4004-836d-c3c835550b9a
        Shadow copy set ID      : 90e19848-7436-4309-8899-4bbecf05a566
        Creation time           : May 19, 2012 16:13:58.750469800 UTC
        Shadow copy ID          : 6db2bc5e-9b95-4ed1-a493-091ee7d2e5e6
        Volume size             : 30002905088 bytes
        Attribute flags         : 0x00420009

and she just spills the tea like that. two stores, all the IDs, all the timestamps, the whole vibe check passed 💖✨

😭 DIAGNOSTICS

Errors, verbose and debug output are printed to stderr when verbose output -v is enabled. and — important — verbose and debug output are only printed when enabled at compilation. so if you're not seeing it, that's a build thing, not a you thing 🫶

💀 BUGS

Please report bugs of any kind to <joachim.metz@gmail.com> or on the project website: https://github.com/libyal/libvshadow/

like, any kind. don't be shy. she wants to know 🌸

🎀 AUTHOR

These man pages were written by Joachim Metz. king behavior, honestly 👑

Copyright (C) 2011-2024, Joachim Metz <joachim.metz@gmail.com>. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

bestie read that again: no warranty. none. not even the merchantability one. do not come for her if it breaks 😭

🔥 SEE ALSO

that's the whole page, thank you for coming to my ted talk 🧚💖 this was the libvshadow situation, dated March 5, 2019 — periodt. 💅🌸

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