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Keep a TFS source backup in Visual Source Safe. Possible?

We moved from Visual Source Safe to Team Foundation Server. Can I sync. TFS source control to Visual Source Safe? I would like to keep a backup of Team Foundation Server source control in Visual Source Safe. Just to have a backup server ready in case the Team Foundation Server rot out and we can quickly shift back to Visual Source Safe server which we once used to work with.

Thanks.

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Don't. TFS server is much more robust and reliable than SourceSafe. If anything is going to rot, it'll be the SourceSafe backup or the mechanism you use to keep SourceSafe synced to the latest TFS code.

Just keep everything in TFS, back up the databases/server in the traditional way, and run diagnostics regularly to detect problems at the earliest opportunity.

Jason Williams  2009-12-16 07:11:28
Ramiz Uddin  2009-12-16 07:47:20
also thought vssconverter might have such option ... any idea?
Ramiz Uddin  2009-12-16 07:48:10
You could back up the source to VSS - I guess GLV and then check in to SourceSafe would be the easiest route, as I'm not aware of any tools to migrate "backwards" to SourceSafe. But how would SourceSafe benefit you? A database backup or database replication onto a different server will be much quicker and more reliable. Using SourceSafe to back up TFS is like putting an oil tanker in a plastic bag in case it leaks!
Jason Williams  2009-12-16 13:37:42

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