title: How to make a backup of Visual Source Safe before migrating to SVN
body: <p>I am beset by my lot using <strong>VSS 2005 (8.0.50727.42)</strong> as source control, which I really struggle to get on with. I am proposing moving to SVN <a href="http://www.visualsvn.com/server/" rel="nofollow">http://www.visualsvn.com/server/</a> and have found a tool which appears to do the migration along with pulling all the history across - in order to keep my fellows happy. - <a href="http://vsstosvn.codeplex.com/" rel="nofollow">http://vsstosvn.codeplex.com/</a>
  (if anyone has had any success or experience with this would be interested to hear your thoughts)</p>
  
  <p>however, in order to make sure this works I would like to do a trial run, but have no idea how to take a backup of the existing VSS in order to do so.. as this tool appears to also deal with changing all the source control bindings in the solution, so if it goes tits up I would probably be beaten..</p>
  
  <p>can I simply make a copy of the folder structure in which the srcsafe.ini resides?
  its just that seems to have all kinds of crap in its data folder..
  folders called
  a
  b
  c
  etc..</p>
  
  <p>any help much appreciated</p>
  
  <p>thanks</p>