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I wanted to understand how others are backing up their TFS server on line? I don't really want to use TFS on line from Microsoft as I have my reasons, however I wouldn't mind having their cloud as a backup somehow.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
What you are asking is not possible.
VSTS uses standard SQL Azure and Azure Storage redundancy and disaster recovery techniques. Microsoft also take snapshots under the covers.
(I would recommend that you use VSTS as it is far more secure and resilient than anything that you could run locally)
TFS stores all of it's data in SQL and you use a marked transaction log system to back it up. The out-of-the-box tool for backups is your best bet. This creates a folder with your backups and will also do a restore for you.
You could the sync that directory with Azure Blob Storage to store your backup online...
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I need to migrate our online VSTS to our own self-hosted TFS 2017 server.
Is there a way to do it and preserve history?
No, there currently is no easy way to move from Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS) back to Azure DevOps Server (formerly TFS) with full fidelity.
There are tools that can migrate work items over. There are tools that can migrate git over. There are tools that can migrate TFVC over (but all IDs change)... But there are so many other things potentially in your Team Projects (like Test results, builds, package management etc)...
In the end getting (mostly) everything from Azure DevOps into Azure DevOps Server should be doable, but you may loose links between items, lose some history and will likely reset dates and author data in the process.
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We are using JIRA Software and JIRA Service Desks in our company.
I am new to JIRA and i want to ask if it is possible to create a test environment for a few projects or service desks? If yes, how can i set it up ?
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Technically, JIRA ServiceDesk is a Plugin in JIRA and it uses AO Tables. With that said, JIRA Project Export and Import doesn't support Exporting AO Tables. It means that you are not able to import ServiceDesk Projects to the other instances. You can take a look at their feature request here.
Thus, I would say it's better to clone the full production instance into a test environment. In order to do that, you have to create backup from home directory, installation directory and database and restore them into a test instance. Full steps are available here in Atlassian Documentations.
Please note that, prior to start the staging environment you have to disable incoming and outgoing emails with the available JVM Arguments. Otherwise, new issues will create in your test servers instead of production.
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I am about to start using Visual Studio 2012 Pro with Azure Websites. I am not using Source control at present. However the idea of rolling back previous versions is very appealing if new code does not work. I really want to keep this as simple as possible.
The options I see are:
1.) TFS (service)
2.) GIT from Local repository to Azure Repository.
3.) Hosted GIT. SInce I am not using GIT at present, then I think this could become an unnecessary extra step.
I am using MVC3, EF4.1, SQL Server, C#.
From your experiences of both, it would be very interesting to hear of your observations
Thank you in advance.
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Yes it could be opinion based, but I was hoping for some factual feedback from any folks that had perhaps tried both. I have altered my question above accordingly.
You can use Visual Studio Online. It integrates well with Azure Management Portal and offers both TFS and Git.
Visual Studio Online is free for up to 5 users. Whether you want to go with Git or TFS, I suggest you play around with both and then decide which one you like.
It also offers Agile and Scrum development process templates.
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I'm new to programming and would like to set up some kind of version control. I'm not sure how all this works.
I'm thinking that i would need to set up some remote server to check code in and out of so that if something happens to my computer i don't lose the code.
What i don't understand is if there are websites over there that offer free hosting for the repository or how does that work.
Have a look at github.com. You can have there free git (famous version control system) hosting up to 300MB (i think it's 300) of source code.
I think github has also payed account where you can have private/non-public-visible repositories.
And maybe also take a look at bitbucket.org.
What i do:
I'm using gitosis on a own server.
With gitosis you can build you own git remote (server).
But this solution requires a root server which cost around 70UDS/month.
With your own server you are independent and you don't have to place your code on other servers.
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Does it make sense to use the project management features of Team Foundation Server without using the Source Control and Automatic Build features? We're doing agile in an non-.net environment and would use TFS to manage the project but keep using the currently used source control and build software.
Thanks in advance,
One of TFS' primary strengths is that the work item tracking and source control are so closely linked. Another of its primary strengths is the integration into the Visual Studio IDE. It sounds like you wouldn't be using either of those features, so that starts to drive you away from using TFS as a solution.
Another factor that is an unknown here is how much you would need to pay for TFS licensing. If you already have that covered under existing MSDN licenses, then it probably isn't a factor.
That being said, the agile process template in TFS 2010 is a very nice agile-in-a-box solution, giving you the work items and management reports that you need to work in an agile environment. Additionally, you can modify the process template as needed to meet your particular flavor of agile.