How to enable specified writers in VSS

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I am novice to VSS,

how can i enable specified writers in VSS.

I want to enable Hyper-v VSS writer itself, I am using below API to enble it but its not working to me.

C++

VSS_ID HypervVSSID; CLSIDFromString(LPOLESTR("66841cd4-6ded-4f4b-8f17-fd23f8ddc3de"), &HypervVSSID); m_pVssObject->EnableWriterClasses((const VSS_ID *)&HypervVSSID ,0)

m_pVssObject->GatherWriterMetadata(&pWriterMetadataStatus);

m_pVssObject->GetWriterMetadataCount (&cWriters);

printf("WriterMetadata count : %d\n",cWriters);

Output : WriterMetaData count : 0

If I am not call (EnableWriterClasses) API explicitely , will get all the writer info including Hyper-v VSS writer.

Can any one suggest me how to enable specified writer.

Thanks in advance.

Posted 13-Sep-12 19:58pm

umohank

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 14-Sep-12 2:36am

I would strongly discourage using VSS. It's conceptually very wrong, proprietary, bulky, non-portable and unreliable. People had crazy problems with it.
--SA

umohank 14-Sep-12 4:03am

Can you suggest any other ways to do valume backup?

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 14-Sep-12 13:26pm

Revision Control is much more then back up, more lean, powerful, functional. I'll give you some references.
--SA

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2012-09-14T07:33:00

[Answering to the question in the discussion in the comment to the question:]

You certainly need much better Revision Control system. Actually, if you are not using a decent system of this type, you are not really developing, you are risking all your valuable development asserts to be lost or just buried under the tons of back-ups, which could practically be almost equivalent to final loss.

Please see this discussion, including my answer:
Revision control systems, which to choose from?[^].

In this past answer I explain why not VSS, in particular:
How can i structured to arrange source code when i create a new solution[^].

Actually, my favorite so far is Subversion:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subversion_%28software%29[^],
http://subversion.apache.org/[^].

You can see some detail I explained in this answers:
Needs some words of wisedom to set up and/or use a server[^],
Make an unclickable form[^].

—SA