Backing Up and Restoring Team Foundation Server Data

re: Restoring Team Foundation Server Data

Mickey Gousset — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 22:14:52 GMT

How do these instructions relate to those posted at http://blogs.msdn.com/vstsue/articles/500334.aspx? Are the newer, and therefor should be used in place of the link listed previously. I noticed there were some steps in the article listed previously which are not in this one, which is why I was wondering.

Also, when you are restoring to the same server, you have to do the restore of the analysis server database. Why do you not have to do that when you are restoring to a different server?

re: Restoring Team Foundation Server Data

vstsuetb — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 01:47:18 GMT

These articles were taken from the documentation that is released (or set to be released) so yes, it is more current.

...as for your secong question - we're looking into it right now.
-Lisa

re: Restoring Team Foundation Server Data

vstsuetb — Fri, 13 Jan 2006 19:10:14 GMT

Mickey,
You do need to restore the Analysis Server database on a different server. The use of "restore the Analysis Server database" is misleading. You need to restore all of the databases including tfsWarehouse and then rebuild the data warehouse (Analysis Server database) that supports the reporting features. The data warehouse (some times called the data cube) is built by using SQL Analysis Services to process the database tfsWarehouse.
-Lisa (for Valerie)

re: Restoring Team Foundation Server Data

Ognjen Bajic — Tue, 17 Jan 2006 11:20:32 GMT

These instructions deal with restoring the data-tier on the same or different data-tier server. We would very appreciate the instructions for restoring a backup of the complete single server configuration on the completely new server.

re: Restoring Team Foundation Server Data

Gabriel Lozano-Morán — Fri, 17 Feb 2006 09:54:29 GMT

After restoring the user databases it is apparently important to remove the
"%Program Files%\Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server\Web Services\VersionControl\Data" folder otherwise it is possible to corrupt the repository

See http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=251122&SiteID=1

re: Restoring Team Foundation Server Data

Bill Cochran — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 18:40:25 GMT

Instructions seem useful, but I also would like to have info on restoring a single server config. Question: can these instructions be used as a reference for renaming a single server configuration?

Answer: Yes you can. The references to “Team Foundation application-tier server” and “Team Foundation data-tier server” would be to the same physical computer in your case; you have both logical tiers on the same physical computer in a single-server deployment.

re: Restoring Team Foundation Server Data

dazim — Sat, 04 Mar 2006 03:04:14 GMT

Why are you instructed not to restore X STS_Content_TFS? Our integrity test was to delete a TFS project and then restore it, and we found it did not come back unless we restored this database as well. All seemed to work ok, so what is the purpose of this special instruction?

re: Backing Up and Restoring Team Foundation Server Data

vstsuetb — Wed, 08 Mar 2006 01:42:05 GMT

Gabrial adn dazim,
Our updated docs reflect the valid concerns that two commented about. I have refreshed the content with the actual released topic information.

Let me know if there's anything more you need.
-Lisa

re: Backing Up and Restoring Team Foundation Server Data

Graham Allwood — Tue, 04 Apr 2006 14:20:53 GMT

Is there any chance I could get hold of:

How to: Restore Team Foundation Server Data to a Different Server

This is referenced in the How to: Move your Team Foundation from One Hardware Configuration to Another. It is also reference in the document above.

Thanks for your help.

re: Backing Up and Restoring Team Foundation Server Data

vstsuetb — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 18:50:18 GMT

Hi Graham,

You can find that topic in the RTM documentation, online at MSDN. Here's the specific link to that topic: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms252516(VS.80).aspx

Hope this helps!

-=Susan

re: Backing Up and Restoring Team Foundation Server Data

oswald — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 14:06:29 GMT

How do i restore a specific team project related fromo the full backup?

re: Backing Up and Restoring Team Foundation Server Data

oswald — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 14:09:25 GMT

is there a way by which i can restore only a specific team project related data or its associated files from a full backup?

Best practices for TFS - The TFS Guide

Team Individualism — Tue, 29 May 2007 05:28:31 GMT

Whilst reading about backup and restore (specifically moving ) for Team Foundation server I found this

re: Backing Up and Restoring Team Foundation Server Data

Mfede — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 03:05:56 GMT

Onepulse has a solution that provides the incremental backup and restore of TFS 2008 data (including SP1 support).

re: Backing Up and Restoring Team Foundation Server Data

zverinjak — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:39:14 GMT

just ghost it (the machine on which TFS resides)

& save ghost files on safe place (network drive or spare hard disk) & when needed, restore ghost on desired machine, name it the same as original machine (ghost will do that for you :) ) & finished (quickiest solution)

You'll have to check drivers, maybe, if new machine hardware is dramatically different from original machine hardware, but windows 2003 should do most of the job itself.

try, test it, in our firm that's entire backup strategy (we are not perfect :) ), but it works

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re: Backing Up and Restoring Team Foundation Server Data

Tomylee — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:14:12 GMT

Can you help me about restoring single server configuration with data back up after the format of that server.