Aaahh..
Will definitely be interesting to see what his reply will be. I'm considering putting a proposal forward on getting our system moved onto to Hyper-V, but before that I think I need to dot my i's and cross my t's. Apparently our "future" systems here will put onto a vmware package, but licensing was in the $800K area for the solution...hmm. Interesting. Brian Madsen Microsoft MVP Visual Developer ASP.Net Senior Application Specialist Fujitsu Australia Limited 410 Murray Street, Perth, WA 6000, Australia [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> +61 08 9268 1586 +61 0433 814 756 au.fujitsu.com <http://au.fujitsu.com> ________________________________ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Charles Sterling Sent: Friday, 27 February 2009 9:57 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Backing up TFS instance Definitely looking forward to your reply. Fwiw for the people on this distribution list; Brian Randell is the person the TFS team goes to when it comes to Hyper-V guidance and is the person that builds our Hyper-V images Chuck From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian A. Randell Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 4:52 PM To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: Backing up TFS instance Oh dear ... Be very carefull. At airport, on phone so will reply later. Sent from my iPhone On Feb 26, 2009, at 4:43 PM, Charles Sterling <[email protected]> wrote: You can move snapshots but to do so you must export them and to export them you must export the entire hyper-V image. This article http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2008.10.disasterr.aspx suggest you can restore them piecemeal- but I don't know how to do this.... This begs the hack of exporting a hyper-V image and replacing its last snapshot with a more recent snapshot. This also begs the larger question: What do you do in the situation where you have the VHD + Snapshots from a running server but the Host is OS is gone? ...I don't know Chuck From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mitch Denny Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 3:26 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Backing up TFS instance With Hyper-V it is basically free. Grab Hyper-V core then use your existing license. I believe snapshots on Hyper-V can be moved. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Madsen, Brian Sent: Thursday, 26 February 2009 9:31 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Backing up TFS instance Hey Guys, We just had a bit of scare this week, which saw our data centre (at my client) shut down due to a massive failure in the aircon. All servers (well, production level ones) has been migrated to another site/location but dev boxes and environments will be left (for the time being) in the old data centre. This has naturally brought some concern to us as we don't just rely on the database to be backeup but also the instances of the our TFS environment. We run a multi-server setup for our TFS and we did have the following set up: 1) virtual image snapshot of all servers done (not incrementally done, but one off) ________________________________ Support procedure: https://www.codify.com/lists/support List address: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Subscribe: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Unsubscribe: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> List FAQ: http://www.codify.com/lists/oztfs <http://www.codify.com/lists/oztfs> Other lists you might want to join: http://www.codify.com/lists <http://www.codify.com/lists> -AU style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>2) databases backed up Naturally I would like to find a way to back up/restore the TFS server as well. 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