A system admin FAQ for *some* Perforce admin/usage...

[JeffBowlesjeff.bowles at weblogic.com]

At 04:10 PM 6/3/98 -0700, you wrote:
>If the audience of this FAQ is people who will administer the depots
>I would include these:
>
>1. What is checkpointing? What is journaling? Why is it a Good Thing?
>
>2. How to perform/manage backups of the depot?
>
>and the biggie:
>
>3. How do I restore a busted depot (or parts thereof) from backups?

Thanks for the input.

Actually, the intended audience is narrower than that. It's meant to
be an FAQ for MY system admins, who won't be doing major P4 administration
but need to be able to do basic debugging of the stuff they're setting
up for my users.

For example, in the answer to the first question ("can you undelete
a file? How?") I talk about getting the penultimate version of the
file, which is the one prior to the deletion, and doing a "p4 add"
to put it back. I allude to the unasked question ("can you expunge
all memory of a file from Perforce? Is that reversible?") by saying
that there's a way to obliterate a file, it's mentioned in the manual,
but it's irreversible and the system admins shouldn't even think about
trying this tool unless their Perforce Administrators are watching over
their shoulder.

It's an intermediate-level FAQ. . . I'll probably allude to backup
strategies but not describe them in detail, but will go into detail
about how to recognize that things "aren't right" in the depot and
call for help.

- -jab