Workflow for disconnecting the view from the network
Disconnecting a view on Linux®
If the view is located on a laptop or removable storage device, disconnect the device from the network; reconnect the removable media to a remote computer.
cp -Rp
Disconnecting a view on a Windows® system
How you disconnect the view depends on which hardware configuration you use.
Hardware configuration: view on a laptop
The HCL VersionVault integration with Microsoft® Visual Studio attempts to connect to the license server periodically. If you are disconnected from the network, the application that attempts to connect to the license server for HCL VersionVault locks for several seconds until it returns an error message. Although the application does not fail, such interruptions are unnecessary.
Hardware configuration: view on a removable storage device
If the view is located on a removable storage device, disconnect the removable storage device from the network computer and reconnect the media to the remote computer.
Hardware configuration: view copied to a storage device
xcopy path\snapshot-view-directory destination [ /D [:m-d-y] | /M ] /S /K /R
xcopy c:\Library\pat_v1.4_cropcircle e:\temp /D /S /K /R
- The /D option instructs xcopy to
copy only the files that have changed, which is useful if you frequently alternate
between the network computer and the computer that is disconnected from the
network. Use /D if you configured the Update Tool to set
the time stamp of updated files to the time at which the files are loaded
into the view. You can view or change the Update Tool time stamp option on
the Advanced tab of the Start Update window..
If you set the Update Tool to create time stamps based on the version-creation time, consider using the /M option, which causes xcopy to copy the files with the archive attribute set. The /M option is less reliable than the /D option, because some applications alter the archive attribute without writing the file.
- The /S option instructs xcopy to copy all subdirectories of the snapshot view.
- The /K option keeps the read-only file attribute as established by HCL VersionVault operations.
- The /R option allows xcopy to overwrite read-only files.