The other day I decided to move my SourceSafe share from a Vista machine over to a share on my Windows Home Server. Everything was working fine at first, but then I started to get reports of possible data corruption. After digging around on The Google, I ran across KB946676 on Microsoft's web site. It doesn't specifically mention SourceSafe, but it does speak of data corruption when you use certain applications to save/edit files that are on Home Server shares.
The programs in question are:
- Windows Vista Photo Gallery
- Windows Live Photo Gallery
- Microsoft Office OneNote 2007
- Microsoft Office OneNote 2003
- Microsoft Office Outlook 2007
- Microsoft Money 2007
- SyncToy 2.0 Beta
- Other programs
I guess SourceSafe falls into the last item listed, "Other programs". I'm sure that I use other "Other programs" and I'm pretty sure you do too.
What is most disturbing the fact that the KB article was first published back on April 3, 2007. On January 9, 2008 (just a few days ago), it was updated to say "Microsoft can reproduce the issue and is currently working on a fix". You mean to tell me that it took Microsoft over 9 months to be able to reproduce the problem and report that a fix was being investigated?!
I'm looking forward to a fix ASAP, but in the mean time, I'll be putting my SourceSafe share back on my Vista machine. What good is 2TB of shared storage if I can't reliably use it?
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Same for my Sourcefiles. I've reloaded the files but after an unpredictable time the files are corrupt again :-(
I think my HP EX470 was caught by some kind of data corruption bug. On last Sunday I was moving some stuff from an old hard drive to the Home Server and I got a message that the name of some files were larger than the maximum permitted. I changed some nomes and moved other files to smaller paths. About half hour late, I got a new message, that the backup service was out of service. I checked the backup page and there were a instruction to remove all the backups bexause the data base was corrupted. So I decided to check the backup service through Terminar Server and realized the service was down. I reactiveted it, but about five minutes later, it was down again. I tried twice more, with the same result. So, I decided to restart the Home Server, clicking shut down inside the Console. After that the system didn't come back anymore. It starts, the lights bink the right way, after 02 minutes all three leds are blue, the hard drives get blue, but after 30 seconds I can hear the fan noise and that the system is reestarting, and this happens in aa infinite loop. When I try to use the recovery server CD, it cant find the box. Any idea?
Thank you,
Francisco Lima
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