I was recently building some scripts to alternate shadow copy storage locations (long story). In so doing, I found that pretty much anything I would normally do in the GUI is exposed at the command prompt using the vssadmin command. The first and one of the most important things that you can do is list settings. This includes the following: providers – lists components that can create and maintain shadow copies shadows – lists shadow copies shadowstorage – lists storage that can be used for shadow copies volumes – lists volumes that have shadow copy enabled writers – lists registered components of applications that store persistent information on a volume…