libvshadow is a library to access the Volume Shadow Snapshot (VSS) format.
The VSS format is used by Windows, as of Vista, to maintain copies of data on a storage media volume.

Project information:

* Status: alpha
* Licence: LGPLv3+

Also see:

* OSDFC 2012: Paper - Windowless Shadow Snapshots: https://github.com/libyal/documentation/blob/master/Paper%20-%20Windowless%20Shadow%20Snapshots.pdf
* OSDFC 2012: Slides - Windowless Shadow Snapshots: https://github.com/libyal/documentation/blob/master/Slides%20-%20Windowless%20Shadow%20Snapshots.pdf

Work in progress:

* Dokan library support
* Multi-threading support

For more information see:

* Project documentation: https://github.com/libyal/libvshadow/wiki/Home
* How to build from source: https://github.com/libyal/libvshadow/wiki/Building