Is Archive / Purge supported?

davenovak · Post by **davenovak** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 7:24 am

In SourceSafe, I could archive and delete history older than a specified date or label. Is there anything analogous in Vault? I looked but couldn’t find anything.

lbauer · Post by **lbauer** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 8:47 am

In Vault 3.5, you can archive (Folder Export/Import) a folder with entire folder history, the obliterate it from the database, but there's no tool for selectively archiving history.

davenovak · Post by **davenovak** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 10:35 am

I am using Vault 3.5.1 yet I do not see Folder Export / Import. A quick search of both the Client and Admin help revealed no relevant hits for the keywords export or archive. How do you do this?

GregM · Post by **GregM** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 12:59 pm

It's a separate program. You should have it in your start menu.

davenovak · Post by **davenovak** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 1:39 pm

I see that now, thanks.

New feature request: please support archive/purge history by date or label. As most of your customers are SourceSafe upgrades, they will expect this feature. This is pretty much "must have" in my book.

On the same topic, I would love to be able to purge all but the most recent (or pinned) version of source in a paticular branch or database. There are times when we deliver our source but intentially do not want any history. But that is a "wish list" item.

Thank you.

MurrayFrancis · Post by **MurrayFrancis** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 12:11 am

I agree, I have recently moved our development across to Vault after using VSS for years, and need to be able to archive and delete selected versions of files.

Our build process updates the Vault with our binaries, and under VSS I used to periodically archive off binaries that were older than a certain date.

lbauer · Post by **lbauer** » Tue Mar 20, 2007 8:06 am

I'll add your "vote" to the feature request for this.