We are thinking of moving from Subversion to Team Foundation Server for our source control requirements. The reasoning behind this being that our project teams are getting bigger and management feel more comfortable using a M'soft product rather than an open sourced solution (I know – I've tried to argue the foolishness of this statement but am not getting anywhere).
So far we've had no issues except for in the case of replicating what would happen if the foundation server box completely died and we where left with just backups. We've tried following the plan at the following link – http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms404869.aspx – but its proving hellish difficult!
We're just wondering whether this is supposed to be such a pain or whether we're just really dim or something. I know with a combination of Subversion and Tortoise I could get the whole thing back up and running within a couple of hours but this is currently taking days.
Best Answer
It shouldn't be taking days. Do you have some huge WSS databases? If so, you can ignore those during an initial restore, since that's not where your core source code is at.
The most important thing is to get your App Tier and Databases back online. The easiest thing might be just to email me at foyc at cornetdesign dot com and I can help either walk you through it, or get you in touch with the right people. But I've dealt with critical restores, and it's never taken days before.