My Infrastructure Administrator was engaged to backup Microsoft Visual SourceSafe Projects ( don't say something that why we are still using VSS 6.0d) and I just come to know that he is use to backup VSS with WinRAR and the most great thing is this that he always Log-in to VSS Server and right click on Folder and then give it a name and Archive it. There is nothing pathetic in this but if he forgets to backups ( as his ratio to forget is high) we have no more option to restore two weeks old backup. I Just create a schedule job with WinRAR command line batch file to backup and give it a name as per his format ( vssbackup-dd-mm-yy.rar ) WinRAR Command line Backup