On 6/12/25 6:27 AM, ToddAndMargo via perl6-users wrote:
Hi All,
Is there any Raku support for Windows VSS (Volume
Shadow Copy)?
Many thanks,
-T
I looking to make a shadow copy of a directory or directories,
copy from it/them, then remove the shadow.
Best I could find is calls to powershell. Be nice
if Raku had support for this. Other languages do,
so I thought Raku might as well.
The best I could find was answer #2 using powershell.
I suppose I could make call to powershell.
https://superuser.com/questions/1895377/create-a-non-persistent-shadow-copy-for-backups-on-windows-11-pro
# set drive letter
$DriveLetter = 'C'
# create shadow copy of volume
$shadow = Invoke-CimMethod -MethodName Create -ClassName
Win32_ShadowCopy -Arguments @{Volume="$($driveletter):\\"}
# get path to browse snapshot
$shadowCopy = Get-CimInstance -ClassName Win32_ShadowCopy | where {$_.ID
-eq $shadow.ShadowID}
$shadowMount = 'c:\temp\shadow'
# create a link to access the snapshot with
cmd /c mklink /d 'c:\temp\shadow' "$($ShadowCopy.DeviceObject)\"
# example: copy some file out of snapshot to back it up
Copy-Item "$shadowMount\temp\test.txt" -Destination 'c:\temp\restored.txt'
# delete the shadow copy when finished
$shadowCopy | Remove-CimInstance
-T
