[p4] Backup procedure help required - script for Perforce in Windows (DOS/VBS)?

[Qazwart]

It's been a while since I wrote DOS Batch scripts, but I believe that  
"if errorlevel" can access the exiting error codes. See <http:// 
www.robvanderwoude.com/errorlevel.html> for more information.

On Jul 26, 2007, at 11:47 AM, Eric L wrote:

> Hello, I am a new Perforce user.
>
> Does anyone have an automated backup script for Perforce running on
> Windows, which they could share?
>
> Also, I do not understand what this step in the Perforce backup  
> procedure means:
>
> "3. Ensure that the checkpoint has been created successfully before
> backing up any  files. (After a disk crash, the last thing you want to
> discover is that the  checkpoints you've been backing up for the past
> three weeks were incomplete!)
>
>  You can tell that the checkpoint command has completed successfully
> by  examining the error code returned from p4d -jc, or by observing
> the  truncation of the current journal file."
>
> A. How do I examine the error code, and what do I look for?
> B. What am I supposed to observe about the truncation of the current
> journal file?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Eric
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David Weintraub
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