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Backup and Restore 1) Backups should be performed regularly as part of the daily or weekly file maintenance and security process. 2) When backing up your Visual SourceSafe database, make sure you are getting a full backup of the database. (Although you can use incremental backups, you should avoid them because some of the files from the database may not be able to be restored.) 3) If users are logged on to Visual SourceSafe and actively using the product, the files they have open will not be backed up by most standard backup utilities. 4) There are several backup and copy utilities that can back up open files. However, if you use these utilities and someone is actively updating a file in Visual SourceSafe when the file is backed up, the backup may be corrupted.
Important Do not schedule Analyze to run at the same time as a backup of the database! If the backup program has files open that Analyze is trying to open, Analyze will shut down unexpectedly.
1) Visual SourceSafe automatically closes any files opened by Visual SourceSafe or an integrated application after 15 minutes of inactivity. (This requires Service Pack 3 of Visual SourceSafe 5.0 or later.) The user still appears to be logged on to Visual SourceSafe and the files will be reopened when they start working again. 2) However, the Rights.dat and Status.dat files remain open any time users are logged on and will not be backed up. You can rebuild these if needed using the Analyze utility. 3) Each time the administrator modifies the rights by project information for a Visual SourceSafe database, Visual SourceSafe copies the Rights.dat file to a Rights.bak file. If necessary, you can rename the Rights.bak file during a restore process.
Caution Never restore a complete backup of a database over an existing database. Visual SourceSafe maintains very complex links between files. Restoring a whole database backup over an existing database may confuse the links between files and cause incorrect versions of the files to be displayed in the database.
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