Metadata-Version: 2.4
Name: libvshadow-python
Version: 20260714
Summary: Python bindings for libvshadow
Maintainer-email: Joachim Metz <joachim.metz@gmail.com>
License-Expression: LGPL-3.0-or-later
Project-URL: Documentation, https://github.com/libyal/libvshadow/wiki/Home
Project-URL: Homepage, https://github.com/libyal/libvshadow
Project-URL: Repository, https://github.com/libyal/libvshadow
Classifier: Development Status :: 3 - Alpha
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python
Requires-Python: >=3.10
Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
License-File: COPYING
License-File: COPYING.LESSER
Dynamic: license-file

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: LGPL-3.0-or-later

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

