how to backup

Collapse
X
 
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts
  • anudu
    New Member
    • Oct 2007
    • 31

    how to backup

    hi, is there any feature in visual stidio.net 2005 to backup our development? like in sql 2005.

    Anushka
  • Shashi Sadasivan
    Recognized Expert Top Contributor
    • Aug 2007
    • 1435

    #2
    Originally posted by anudu
    hi, is there any feature in visual stidio.net 2005 to backup our development? like in sql 2005.

    Anushka
    Yes, i think professional and onwards of visual studio can use the feature of source safe as long as you have a licence of source safe installed.

    Comment

    • Banfa
      Recognized Expert Expert
      • Feb 2006
      • 9067

      #3
      Visual Source Safe is not a very good backup/source control utility in that it quite often corrupts it's own archive files.

      You may want to read this Visual SourceSafe: Microsoft's Source Destruction System

      Comment

      • balabaster
        Recognized Expert Contributor
        • Mar 2007
        • 798

        #4
        Originally posted by Banfa
        Visual Source Safe is not a very good backup/source control utility in that it quite often corrupts it's own archive files.

        You may want to read this Visual SourceSafe: Microsoft's Source Destruction System
        It's not the cheapest option, but I might suggest Microsoft Visual Studio Team System which is touted to be the replacement for Visual Source Safe (which I never really rated). From all accounts it's (conceptually at least) like a "Microsoft Visual Studio Server" which I imagine has far greater ability to be included in backup and disaster recovery solutions. I can only speculate just now as I've not had the opportunity to play with it yet.

        I personally use the tried and true: Keep all my work on my USB key which is set to auto-sync with my desktop machine at work when I connect it up - I created a little FileSystemWatch er service utility that automatically synchronizes my desktop machine with my personal directory on the server at the office. The server is physically in another location and gets backed up every night so at any given time there's 3 copies of my work. One on my USB key, one on my desktop machine at the office and one on the server at a different location. Consequently if anything happens to the server, I've still got 2 failsafes, chances of all 3 corrupting are incredibly slim.

        Comment

        • Banfa
          Recognized Expert Expert
          • Feb 2006
          • 9067

          #5
          At work I currently use Subversion and TortoiseSVN both of which are free and both of which seem to work quite well indeed.

          Comment

          • Shashi Sadasivan
            Recognized Expert Top Contributor
            • Aug 2007
            • 1435

            #6
            Originally posted by balabaster
            It's not the cheapest option, but I might suggest Microsoft Visual Studio Team System which is touted to be the replacement for Visual Source Safe (which I never really rated). From all accounts it's (conceptually at least) like a "Microsoft Visual Studio Server" which I imagine has far greater ability to be included in backup and disaster recovery solutions. I can only speculate just now as I've not had the opportunity to play with it yet.

            I personally use the tried and true: Keep all my work on my USB key which is set to auto-sync with my desktop machine at work when I connect it up - I created a little FileSystemWatch er service utility that automatically synchronizes my desktop machine with my personal directory on the server at the office. The server is physically in another location and gets backed up every night so at any given time there's 3 copies of my work. One on my USB key, one on my desktop machine at the office and one on the server at a different location. Consequently if anything happens to the server, I've still got 2 failsafes, chances of all 3 corrupting are incredibly slim.
            Hi
            i would be interested in something like that !!!
            Any posibility for a startup snippet of it to get started? [:D]

            Comment

            Working...