[p4] Error while recovering a database from a checkpoint !!!

[Tetlow, Gordon]

When it comes to backup strategies, do not mess around with creative
solutions. Creative solutions are unmaintainable going forward and prone
to breakage. Wait until 9 months from now when you can't understand a
why you have this strange multi server setup.

The fact that you asked the original post indicates that either you
haven't done your homework or have missed something in your initial
reading. Please spend the time to read, digest, and comprehend the
entire System Administrator's guide as well as the P4 User's guide; it
will make your Perforce experience much better. The SAG has an entire
chapter devoted to backup and restore methodologies. If after reading
the online materials you are still unsure of how things work, you might
consider a formal software training from Perforce.

-gordon

> -----Original Message-----
> From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com 
> [mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of - C Saha -
> Sent: Tuesday, February 07, 2006 8:49 PM
> To: - C Saha -; perforce-user at perforce.com
> Subject: Re: [p4] Error while recovering a database from a 
> checkpoint !!!
> 
> Hi All
>    
>   If I have understood correctly then the following is correct...
>    
>   C:\Program Files\Perforce>p4d -jc p4djc
>   Checkpointing to p4djc.ckp.8...
>   Saving journal to p4djc.jnl.7...
>   Truncating journal...
>    
>   Checkpoint file at any point holds all the database 
> information to re-create the db from day-1 of perforce setup. 
> So in the above example p4djc.ckp.8 holds all the database 
> information from day-1 (which is required to re-create the 
> whole perforce database). 
>    
>   And the journal file is the transaction file where all the 
> information are kept since last checkpoint. So in the above 
> example p4djc.jnl.7 holds all the db transactions after 
> checkpoint 7 (means p4djc.ckp.7). 
>    
>   So in the above case if in the FAILOVER SERVER if I would 
> have already build the db from p4djc.ckp.7 (last checkpoint 
> file not the current one) and then if I reply the journal 
> p4djc.jnl.7 then both my P4 PROD and FAILOVER server will 
> have same db and now if I take checkpoint in my FAILOVER 
> SERVER that should be exactly same as p4djc.ckp.8. 
>    
>   Requesting all to correct me if I am wrong somewhere.
>   
> 
> - C Saha - <p4sync at yahoo.com> wrote:
>   Hi All 
> 
> While recovering a database from a checkpoint (in my failover 
> server) I am getting this errors ... 
> 
> Any idea my recovery is complete & successful or Incomplete & 
> Unsuccessful ?
> 
> Pls help with ideas, how to recover? 
> 
> C:\Program Files\Perforce>p4d -jr p4djc.ckp.18 p4djc.jnl.17
> Recovering from p4djc.ckp.18...
> Recovering from p4djc.jnl.17...
> Perforce server warning:
> Journal file 'p4djc.jnl.17' skipped (out of sequence). 
> 
>       Thanks a lot to all in advance 
> 
> ====================
> Thanks & Regards 
>   CSaha
> 
> 
>   
> 
> 
> 
>     Thanks a lot to all in advance 
> 
> ====================
> Thanks & Regards 
>   CSaha
> 
> 
> 
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