Read Hyper-V snapshots

Question

We can take VSS based snapshot of Hyper-V VM using WMI CreateSnapshot() API provided by Msvm_VirtualSystemSnapshotService. But there is no API provided to read the snapshot data. Please suggest the ways to read Hyper-V snapshot data for backup purpose.

Answer 1

There are many details which you can leverage for your backup purpose.

The Msvm_VirtualSystemSnapshotService class contains the following properties:

Description, DetailedStatus, OperatingStatus, OperationalStatus, PrimaryStatus, StatusDescriptions etc.