Re: [rdiff-backup-users] native VSS (Shadow Copy) support

[Josh Nisly]

Two things:
1) The rdiff-backup project likely won't accept patches for features 
that are platform specific. There are exceptions for OS-specific 
filesystem metadata, but VSS doesn't fall into that category.
2) I've written a python extension module in C++ to implement VSS. Is 
that something that you'd be interested in?

JoshN

Randy Syring wrote:
> I was going to try to add support for Windows Shadow Copy Service 
> based on this code/concept:
>
> http://markmail.org/thread/bmyioexeuvnwlmho
>
> and am wondering if anyone had suggestions related to this.  The 
> concept seems simple enough, make a shadow copy of each drive involved 
> and change the location of the backed up files from the actual drive 
> to the vss image.  I was thinking a new flag could be implemented 
> '--vss' in order to tell rdiff-backup that vss images are desired.