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How To: Backup a SourceSafe Database

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Need some time to catch up on your email or pay
some bills? Wanna read an online article about your favorite baseball, cricket,
or football team's latest game? Here's a five second task whose completion can
convince the toughest micro-manager that you've been burning the candle at both ends to
protect your company's vital data.

Create a SourceSafe database disaster recovery
plan. And since everything with an acronym connotes hard work, give it a fat one
like SSDDRP. Your boss will love it.

To Backup a Visual SourceSafe
Database

Copy
it to a new location…

1.      Create
a share on a computer that does not contain your SourceSafe database (eg, \\server2\vss_backup$).

Impress your
boss Insert a $
symbol after the name of your share to hide it from casual browsers on the network.

2.      In
Windows Explorer on the SourceSafe server, select the SourceSafe installation folder
(eg, c:/Program Files/Microsoft Visual Studio/VSS).

3.      On
the Edit menu, click Copy.

4.      Browse
to the backup share you created in step 1.

5.      On
the Edit menu, click Paste.

 

Optionally, you can create a tape backup of the server
on which your backed up database is stored. It's that easy. 

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הודעה
זו מסופקת "כפי שהיא"
ללא כל אחריות או
חיובים, ואינה נותנת
לך זכויות כלשה.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    October 07, 2003
    Practical joke? :)What's wrong with SSARC?Or what about this document:http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnvss/html/vssbest.aspNew DatabasesAvoid creating a new database by copying an existing one. Doing so can potentially cause problems because the globally unique identifier (GUID) in the Um.dat will be the same for both databases.Does not apply anymore? (since if this is an reasonable way of making backups, it would also be an reasonable way of duplicating the base to get same users etc..)

  • Anonymous
    October 07, 2003
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  • Anonymous
    October 16, 2003
    You menton there are GUID conflicts with um.dat if a new database is created by copying existing one. Specifically what kinds of problems occur if two complete copies of vss exist in 2 different directories on the same server?

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