Initial attempt at importing not going so well..

Tim Stubbs · Post by **Tim Stubbs** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 10:14 am

A few errors (labels importing off)

"An error occurred while trying to end a transaction.
An exception was encountered during the transaction. Exception: VaultServiceAPILib.VaultSoapException: 1011 : FailInvalidSessionToken
at VaultService.VaultServiceSystem.ValidateToken(VaultAuth va)
at VaultService.VaultService.EndTx(String strTxID, Int32 nTxAction, DateTime& dtTxBegin, Int64& nNewRevision, VaultResponseItem[]& responses) at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.ReadResponse(SoapClientMessage message, WebResponse response, Stream responseStream, Boolean asyncCall)
at System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapHttpClientProtocol.Invoke(String methodName, Object[] parameters)
at VaultClientNetLib.ClientService.VaultService.EndTx(String strTxID, Int32 nTxAction, DateTime& dtTxBegin, Int64& nNewRevision, VaultResponseItem[]& responses)
at VaultClientNetLib.VaultConnection.EndTx(String strTxID, Int64& nNewRevision, VaultResponseItem[]& responses, Int32 nAction, DateTime& txBeginDate)
at VaultClientOperationsLib.ClientInstance.Commit(ChangeSetItemColl givenItems, Boolean keepCheckedOut, Boolean removeLocalCopy, Boolean bIsImport, DateTime dateImport, Int32 nUserIDImport, Int64& nRevID)
Transaction failed
An error occurred while trying to begin a transaction.
Transaction failed
An exception was encountered during the transaction. Exception: The Vault server could not be contacted to perform the operation. Your network connection to the server may have been interrupted. Please verify your network settings using the Options dialog under the Tools menu in the Vault GUI Client.The request failed with HTTP status 400: Bad Request. at VaultClientNetLib.VaultConnection.BeginTx_VSSImport(Int32 nRepID, DateTime dtgBegin, Int32 nUserID, VaultRequestItem[]& requests, String& strTxID, String comment)
at VaultClientOperationsLib.ClientInstance.Commit(ChangeSetItemColl givenItems, Boolean keepCheckedOut, Boolean removeLocalCopy, Boolean bIsImport, DateTime dateImport, Int32 nUserIDImport, Int64& nRevID)
An error occurred while trying to begin a transaction.
Transaction failed
An exception was encountered during the transaction. Exception: The Vault server could not be contacted to perform the operation. Your network connection to the server may have been interrupted. Please verify your network settings using the Options dialog under the Tools menu in the Vault GUI Client.The request failed with HTTP status 400: Bad Request. at VaultClientNetLib.VaultConnection.BeginTx_VSSImport(Int32 nRepID, DateTime dtgBegin, Int32 nUserID, VaultRequestItem[]& requests, String& strTxID, String comment)
at VaultClientOperationsLib.ClientInstance.Commit(ChangeSetItemColl givenItems, Boolean keepCheckedOut, Boolean removeLocalCopy, Boolean bIsImport, DateTime dateImport, Int32 nUserIDImport, Int64& nRevID)
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lbauer · Post by **lbauer** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 11:43 am

Looks like something is interfering with the Import Tool's connection with the Vault Server. The IIS may have restarted, for instance.

Please email another copy of the Vault server log file to linda at sourcegear.com.

Tim Stubbs · Post by **Tim Stubbs** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 3:08 am

I've sent the logs for two imports, one with labels and one without, for the same project. The labels (in vault) appear to have the wrong dates. Is it the case that the whole srcsafe db needs to be imported for these to be accurate? I'm running a further experiement just importing the labels for the past year or so this morning.

Edit: i've sent some screenshots over to illustrate the label problem as well.

lbauer · Post by **lbauer** » Wed Jan 25, 2006 9:04 am

If you look at folder history in Vault 3.1.6, label dates may not correspond to the date of the label, but to the date of the version of the folder the label corresponds to. So if your folder was last updated on July 4, 2005, and you applied the label on Sept. 1, 2005, the label date is July 4, 2005 when you Show History on the folder. However, if you use the Show Labels command, you should see the actual date the label was applied.

I'm still reviewing your log files, etc. and will get back to you via email soon.

Tim Stubbs · Post by **Tim Stubbs** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 5:09 am

lbauer wrote:If you look at folder history in Vault 3.1.6, label dates may not correspond to the date of the label, but to the date of the version of the folder the label corresponds to. So if your folder was last updated on July 4, 2005, and you applied the label on Sept. 1, 2005, the label date is July 4, 2005 when you Show History on the folder. However, if you use the Show Labels command, you should see the actual date the label was applied.

I'm still reviewing your log files, etc. and will get back to you via email soon.

Ok thanks for the info I think I follow now - however, when you ask to display labels there appears to be no way to change the sorting from version number to date, or name etc? This results in a very confusing list for our db. Presumably the import tool is another factor - as labels which are chronologically older have newer version numbers which causes them to bubble up to the top of the list.

FYI i've also been running analyze on the ss db and it does have some inconsistancies (which analyze says it's clears up but doesnt - i.e. if you run analyze repeatedly it says it's doing the same fixes over and over) but probably not enough to seriously hamper the import.

Speed is much better when done locally on my pc - but i'm not sure if this is down to processor time or just simply because our remote server runs SQL 2000 and i'm running 2005. The different is a day and a half as compared to an hour and a half (for the single test project).

With thanks.

lbauer · Post by **lbauer** » Thu Jan 26, 2006 4:05 pm

there appears to be no way to change the sorting from version number to date, or name etc

We hope to improve the ordering of imported labels in a future release.

I've also been running analyze on the ss db and it does have some inconsistancies

Quite often archiving a VSS database clears up inconsistencies that Analyze misses.

Tim Stubbs · Post by **Tim Stubbs** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 4:09 am

lbauer wrote: We hope to improve the ordering of imported labels in a future release.

Great - just being able to sort them or, additionally, search for one would be excellent.

lbauer wrote: Quite often archiving a VSS database clears up inconsistencies that Analyze misses.

Ok, thanks for the idea - i'm running an mass export now and then i'll recreate the db from that to see if it helps.

Tim Stubbs · Post by **Tim Stubbs** » Fri Jan 27, 2006 5:57 am

Scratch the mass export.. it failed with an error

I'm going to run test mass-import into a clean vault db over the weekend just to see how things go..