For our source's security, an adminstrator of Microsoft Visual SourceSafe should do a backup daily or weekly at least. The backup process won't cost us a long time, but we prefer automatical backup for sure. Let's introduce how to implement a daily backup by making use of existing tools.
Tools ssarc.exe. ssarc.exe is a backup tool offered by SoureSafe. It's in "win32" directory which is under the installation path of SouceSafe. schtasks. In Windows Server 2003, schtasks allows an administrator creating, deleting, querying, configurng, running and stopping local or remote scheduled tasks in system. It is designed to replace at.exe. Steps Create a batch file names as "backup.bat" in "c:\backup\bin" directory; Write the following commands into the file: 1 @echo off 2 @title Backing up SourceSafe databases 3 set SsPath = C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\VSS\win32\ 4 set BakPath = C:\backup\content\ 5 " %SsPath%ssarc.exe " –d - - s " Path to a SourceSafe Database " –i - - yadmin,password 6 –o@ "