[p4] Separating depot from DB's

[Benjamin Nias]

Hi all,

 

I have a P4 server running Server 2003 with an attached RAID Array for
the depot. Currently P4ROOT set to E:\P4 (a logical drive on the RAID). 

 

I have a separate logical drive on a directly attached RAID (D:\) that
has 10K drives. I wish to run P4 so that our depot lives in it's current
location on E:\P4 but the .db's are held on D:\.

 

I tried to do this this morning with the following:

 

E:\P4> p4d -jc

 

E:\P4> p4 set -s P4ROOT="D:\"

 

E:\P4> p4 admin stop

 

E:\P4> p4d -r d:\ -jr checkpoint.xxx journal.xxx-1

 

This produces and error of "journal is out of sequence". I've doubled
checked this and the checkpoint and journal files specified are indeed
in sequence and the ones just generated by my -jc command.

 

Then, when restarting the server I get 

 

Connect to server failed; check $P4PORT.

TCP connect to 1666 failed.

connect: 1666: WSAECONNREFUSED

 

When this failed I decided to set the root back to the original folder
so my users could continue whilst I made this post. However when
invoking -jr to the original location, I got the same error. I then
copied back the backed up .db's from before my checkpoint and all worked
fine.

 

My questions are:

 

Am I making the right steps to make the migration work?

Am I being thrown off by a possible corrupted journal file as the -jr
didn't work even when P4ROOT was set to the original location?

 

Cheers,

 

 

Benjamin Nias

Systems Administrator

Rocksteady Studios Limited

 

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