auto saving projects to local hard drive for Project Server 2003.

[RussB]

As no easy way exists to selectively restore individual projects from project
server I thought that a user could use the Tools>Option and save tab to take
periodic saves to their local hard drive. Periodically the user is prompted
to save their changed project - which works fine other than it isn't saving
to their hard drive even though they have a local path name under File
Locations. Why doesn't this work and what needs to be done to ensure that a
backup of their project is made to their hard drive? We are using Project
2003 and at service pack 2.

 

[Dale Howard [MVP]]

Russ --

The process does not work as you wish because AutoSave saves to the default
save location, which in a Project Server environment is the Project Server
database. I am not aware of any way to force the software to save to the
user's hard drive instead. Instead, make sure that your DBA's are making a
nightly backup of the Project Server database. If you ever need to restore
a single project, then refer to the following FAQ:

http://www.projectserverexperts.com/Shared Documents/RestoreProject.htm

Hope this helps.