Thanks guys, I didn't realise the retention policy feature was there in TFS2008. Regards, Damian Edwards Readify | Senior Consultant M: 0448 545 868 | E: [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | C: [EMAIL PROTECTED]<sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | W: www.readify.net<http://www.readify.net/>
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of William Bartholomew Sent: Thursday, 19 June 2008 15:08 To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [OzTFS] Drop folder management Hi Damian, Each drop of our software is around 1 Gb and we have a few strategies: 1. We use the following retention policy on our nightly builds: a. Failed - Keep latest only b. Partially Succeeded - Keep latest only c. Stopped - Keep none d. Succeeded - Keep 5 builds 2. Our CI build usually only keep 1 or 2 builds. 3. The builds are dropped onto a NAS box rather than either the build machine or TFS machine. 4. We use Nagios to monitor the disk space available on the NAS box and either expand the space or trim builds when necessary. 5. Builds that should be kept (releases, service packs, hotfixes) are set to Retain Indefinitely so they're not affected by the retention policy. William From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Damian Edwards Sent: Thursday, 19 June 2008 2:53 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [OzTFS] Drop folder management Just wondering what others are doing for drop folder management? Each build is resulting in a 170MB drop folder and with CI this adds up very quickly to multiple GBs per day. Now that our TFS environment is fully virtual this needs closer attention (as the backup/DR strategy is to backup the VM .vhd differencing disk file). Do I lose anything if I purge the drop folder weekly, e.g. test results? Or should I be pushing to get a cheap 500GB/1TB USB2 drive added to the host server that I can map as a physical disk to the TFS VM to store drops on? Regards, Damian Edwards Readify | Senior Consultant Suite 206 Nolan Tower | 29 Rakaia Way | Docklands | VIC 3008 | Australia M: 0448 545 868 | E: [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | C: [EMAIL PROTECTED]<sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | W: www.readify.net<http://www.readify.net/> ________________________________ The content of this e-mail, including any attachments is a confidential communication between Readify Pty Ltd and the intended addressee and is for the sole use of that intended addressee. If you are not the intended addressee, any use, interference with, disclosure or copying of this material is unauthorized and prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error please contact the sender immediately and then delete the message and any attachment(s). OzTFS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. View the web archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Powered by mailenable.com, supported by www.readify.net OzTFS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. View the web archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Powered by mailenable.com, supported by www.readify.net OzTFS.com - to unsubscribe from this list, send a message back to the list with 'unsubscribe' as the subject. View the web archives at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Powered by mailenable.com, supported by www.readify.net
