Set verbose

• Applies to:

  ✅ Windows Server 2025, ✅ Windows Server 2022, ✅ Windows Server 2019, ✅ Windows Server 2016, ✅ Windows 11, ✅ Windows 10, ✅ Azure Local, versions 23H2 and 22H2

Specifies whether verbose output is provided during shadow copy creation. If used without parameters, set verbose displays help at the command prompt.

Syntax

set verbose {on | off}

Parameters

Parameter	Description
on	Turns on verbose output logging during the shadow copy creation process. If verbose mode is on, set provides details of writer inclusion or exclusion and details of metadata compression and extraction.
off	Turns off verbose output logging during the shadow copy creation process.

Related links

• Command-Line Syntax Key

• set context command

• set metadata command

• set option command