Windows Home Server as a Subversion Server
I have talked about Subversion a bunch in the past, as it is definitely #1 on my list of developer tools I can not live without. About six months ago I converted my Windows Home Server into my subversion server. Setting it up was a breeze with SVN1-Click Setup, and transferring the repository was just as easy.
I have gotten a couple emails lately with people posting problems about Windows Home Server being used as a Subversion Server. There are two key things you must remember:
1) If you put your repository under "D:\Shares" make sure to turn off duplication in the Windows Home Server console. You will get a bunch of locked transfer files otherwise.
2) To avoid all of that above, alternatively you can put your repository under the "D:\" root.
The new Windows Home Server Power Pack will be coming out soon which will allow you to specify external drives to backup to. Right now I just download my contents to a hot swappable on my main machine.
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Take a look to VisualSVN Server (http://www.visualsvn.com/server/)
It performs everything as svn1-click-setup plus it contains nice GUI to configure Subversion server and supports authentication against Windows domain.