RE: Large VSS Databases

Ah, now I understand.

A lot has happened in the last year.  Vault 1.0 had
some serious scalability problems.  Vault 1.1 was
a little better.  Vault 1.2 was a lot better.  Vault
2.0 is better still.

Scalability aside, VSS import is still a tricky
thing.  Make sure you read the following before
you start:

http://support.sourcegear.com/viewtopic.php?t=8

--
Eric Sink
Software Craftsman
http://software.ericsink.com/
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Neil Sleightholm [mailto:neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 11:41 AM
To: Eric Sink; vault-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [vault-list] Large VSS Databases

I think I may have misunderstood an email you posted about a year ago.
At that time it sounded like Vault didn't scale too well and importing
4Gb VSS database was not recommended. Is this no longer the case (if it
ever was!). I guess I'm going to have to try and see what happens.

Neil

-----Original Message-----
From: vault-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:vault-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Eric Sink
Sent: 20 January 2004 14:35
To: vault-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [vault-list] Large VSS Databases


I'm not entirely sure what you mean by "additional support for very
large source-safe databases".  If I'm not correctly understanding your
question, you may want to be more specific.

We already have a number of customers who have imported databases of
larger than 4GB.

It remains the case that the important variable when talking about Vault
scalability is how many files are in the repository.  We have customers
with around 100,000 files.  Internally, we test Vault with a repository
that contains 500,000 files.

Vault 2.0 offers faster performance and more scalability than any
release we've done so far. 

Regarding your offer of a copy of your VSS database:
We do periodically obtain VSS databases from customers (under NDA) for
the purpose of resolving specific problems.  If it becomes necessary for
us to have a copy of your data to help resolve any difficulties you
have, we can talk about it then.

--
Eric Sink
Software Craftsman
http://software.ericsink.com/
 
-----Original Message-----
From: vault-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:vault-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Neil
Sleightholm
Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 1:50 AM
To: vault-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [vault-list] Large VSS Databases

Does V2.00 have any additional support for very large source-safe
databases e.g. > 4Gb? (I know this is pushing the limits of source-safe
hence the need to migrate.)
 
Eric - we did discuss this once before and you said you would be
interested in using a copy of our vss database to investigate this. If
this still something you want to pursue feel free to contact me offline.
 
Neil
 
Neil Sleightholm
X2 Systems Limited
neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
 

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