SoureOffSite Serve never disconnect from Visual SourceSafe 6

[dhliu]

Hi,

We are using SourceOffSite to access our Visual SourceSafe database. The problem is that even the SourceOffSite client disconnect from SourceOffSite server, the server still connect to Visual SourceSafe database. This problem prohibited our weekly Visual SourceSafe backup plan.

So my question is that why the SOS server still connect to VSS DB even when I disconnect from SOS server, and is there any approach in SOS server to close a connection to VSS DB manually?

Enviroment: SourceOffSite 4.2, Visual SourceSafe 6 and Windows 2000.

Thanks in advance!

David

[lbauer]

The SOS Server acts like a VSS Client and always maintains a connection to the VSS database. The only way to "log off" the SOS Server is to stop the service.

You can do this from the command line, and incorporte the command in a batch script as part of your backup:

net stop sossvrsvc.net
net start sossvrsvc.net

These commands will stop and start the SOS 4.0 Server service.