Help getting vssadmin/shadow copies max size (WMI/PowerShell)

Hi,

I would like to be able to get the value of 'Maximum Shadow Copy Storage Space', which is the maximum % of the drive available for storing shadow copies. I'm only interested in the C: drive, which can be shown by running

vssadmin list shadowstorage /for=C:

Example output - result shows 10%

Shadow Copy Storage association
   For volume: (C:)\\?\Volume{ad6dd63c-7d44-479e-a2ad-96dbd334cd26}\
   Shadow Copy Storage volume: (C:)\\?\Volume{ad6dd63c-7d44-479e-a2ad-96dbd334cd26}\
   Used Shadow Copy Storage space: 20.7 GB (8%)
   Allocated Shadow Copy Storage space: 21.5 GB (9%)
 Maximum Shadow Copy Storage space: 23.1 GB (10%)

Using WMI, I can get the DeviceID for the C: drive

Get-WmiObject -Class "Win32_volume" | Where-Object {$_.Name -Like "C:\"} | Select DeviceID, Name, Capacity

Output is 

DeviceID                                          Name     Capacity
--------                                          ----     --------
\\?\Volume{ad6dd63c-7d44-479e-a2ad-96dbd334cd26}\ C:\  248154189824

So far so good. Now I can use WMI again to query the ShadowStorage stuff

Get-WmiObject -Class "Win32_shadowstorage" | Select-Object Volume, Maxspace

Output is 

Volume                                                                            MaxSpace
------                                                                            --------
Win32_Volume.DeviceID="\\\\?\\Volume{ad6dd63c-7d44-479e-a2ad-96dbd334cd26}\\"  24815419289
Win32_Volume.DeviceID="\\\\?\\Volume{6a8b80d5-fc08-4217-a848-f8d661416919}\\" 500094520524
Win32_Volume.DeviceID="\\\\?\\Volume{db66cfc2-0000-0000-0000-800200000000}\\"  75011247308

Okay... here is where I'm stuck...

I have 3 drives in this computer, but I'm only interested in the C: drive, so need to filter this command to include only the DeviceID from above, but not sure how.

I then need to take the value for MaxSpace and divide that by Capacity (then multiple by 100, then remove all the decimal places) to get a clean % figure. In this case, 10%.

Can anyone help? Thanks in advance.

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  • Hey, came across this post today while I was trying to figure out the same thing. This worked for me. I'm just stripping some of the volume ID so I can get a match

    $wmi = Get-WmiObject -Class "Win32_volume" | Where-Object {$_.Name -Like "C:\"} | Select DeviceID, Name, Capacity
    $id = $wmi.DeviceID.Replace("`\","")
    $id = $id.replace("?Volume{","")
    $gb = Get-WmiObject -Class "Win32_shadowstorage" | Where{$_.Volume -match $id} | Select-Object Volume, MaxSpace
    $gb.MaxSpace/1GB

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