Microsoft hasn't updated Visual SourceSafe since 2006. Its successor
is Team Foundation Server.
SourceSafe was by far the worst revision control system I ever worked
with. It regularly corrupted things and probably once a month I had to
clean up some sort of mess. Those problems were more common w
I'd be happy to recommend other source control packages, but if you're on
your own and your company is using SourceSafe, I'd use it even though it's
obsolete and not supported and maybe has those file corruption issues. I
also wouldn't entirely trust it and continue your own backup program.
If you
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I do something a little more robust, since I potentially want more than just
one backup or restore point, but we do not have SVN or Git infrastructure here
at work, and I don't know (or more accurately trust) how well various
sourcecode versioning systems
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I do similar, but once at end of day just before leaving for the night.
I have a Robocopy batch file that mirrors my working directory
I do similar, but once at end of day just before leaving for the night.
I have a Robocopy batch file that mirrors my working directory on C: to my
network drive that is backed up by IT every night. I have a shortcut on my
desktop that I click, then lock the machine and go home. It looks similar
Or to Git ... which is even better than SVN.
Z
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Subject: Re: Sourcesafe
Making a manual archive is always a good practice
Making a manual archive is always a good practice - I would advise doing
this on a twice daily basis so that the files are backed up to a server
in a different location.
Warning: SourceSafe is a discontinued Microsoft package. Even though
SourceSafe can handle any type of file, we experienced
Subversion [was "Re: SourceSafe???
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So Subversion can handle any file type (FLA, SWF, FM, Graphics, etc.)?
Sincerely,
Loren
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Thought you might be interested in this summary of Subversion as an
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Marcus wrote:
> If you check in Frame files you are storing a copy of the template
> information every single time you commit. This can chew up your storage
> space fairly quickly.
Visual SourceSafe (VSS) does binary deltas on FrameMaker binary files.
Template information is not repeated on
On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 11:19:56 -0400, "Vorndran, Charles P" <
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> At the low end of the price range there's CVS and its intended
>replacement, SubVersion. These, again are designed for text files but
>they will handle binaries, and their low price may make them very
>a
Vorndran, Charles P wrote:
> Loren,
>
> SourceSafe will certainly handle the file types you mentioned and
> virtually any others that you didn't. The characteristic of most
> version control systems of this type is that they're really designed to
> store text files efficiently, and binary files,
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