I understand your gripe (though I don't agree with it; TFS comes out of the box with permissions that only allow administrators to force push in a way that rewr

I understand your gripe (though I don't agree with it; TFS comes out of the box with permissions that only allow administrators to force push in a way that rewrites history, but more importantly, this data was never lost, you would only need to look in the reference log to find this), but surely you're not seriously suggesting that one not backup their TFS server? Please do back that up, even if you're using TFVC moving forward!