Restoring a Visual SourceSafe Project from Archive

STEP BY STEP

1. Choose the Archive, Restore Projects menu option.

2. On Screen 1 of the Restore wizard, browse to the Visual SourceSafe archive (SSA) file that you want to restore, and click the Next button (see Figure 2.5).
   
   
   FIGURE 2.5 - Specifying an existing Archive file to restore from.

3. On the screen for step 2, choose the projects from the archive that you want to restore (see Figure 2.6)
   
   
   FIGURE 2.6. - Specifying the projects that you want to restore.

4. On the screen for step 3, select where you would like the project restored. Click the Finish button and wait for the Restore wizard's notification of success (see Figure 2.7).
   
   
   FIGURE 2.7. Step 3 of the Restore wizard.

You can use the Archive/Restore feature of Visual SourceSafe to transfer projects between two Visual SourceSafe databases. To transfer a project from one Visual SourceSafe database to another, follow these steps:

1. Archive the project from the database where it originally existed (the source).

2. Restore the archived project to the destination database.