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fault tolerance on Visual SourceSafe

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by myamamoto

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Hi,

Is there any solution for fault tolerance on Visual SourceSafe other then the hardware
being Raid 5???
I was told Network Loading Balancing would not work and Visual SourceSafe is not effective on it.

Can you use Shadowing as a form of fault tolerance is the VSS server crashes???

Thank you for any and all help.

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by haris

You might need to take regular backups. Shadow files may help provided the files where the shadow is located are not altered outside of VSS. I am using a separate secure SHADOW server (on a machine other than the VSS Server) where all VSS projects are shadowed. It provides some fault tolerance but the best way would be to maintain regular backups. With the shadow solution you will have to recreate all projects and resubmit all the files in the event of a crash. However if you are maintaing the backup feature as provided in VSS you will be able to restore your VSS with the backups.

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