[p4] Separating depot from DB's

[Stephen Vance]

Benjamin --

You can find more detail on why the server did not start in your log 
file. Normally, that's in your P4ROOT.

Also, I would recommend setting the P4ROOT variable on a per-service 
basis rather than system wide. This is pedantic if you are only ever 
going to run one server, but is essential if you ever run multiple 
server instances. I believe that this is how Perforce defined P4ROOT to 
start, as well, but I don't remember for sure. To do this, you do 'p4 -S 
<servicename> set P4ROOT="D:\" where <servicename> is "Perforce" in the 
default installation.

If I wanted to move my depots as you are doing, here's how I would 
approach it. First, I would redefine my depots so that their root was an 
absolute path, rather than a relative one. To do this, change your "Map" 
entry to the full path name, something like "E:/P4/depot/...". Then I 
would checkpoint, stop the server, change the P4ROOT, move the old db.* 
files someplace out of the way (keep them for safety, but this helps you 
verify that the server is running from where you want), copy the license 
file, restore from checkpoint and test. Also, you would use 
checkpoint.xxx and journal.xxx+1, but it's only necessary to use the 
checkpoint if you stop the server before checkpointing.

Hope this helps,
Steve

Benjamin Nias wrote:
> Hi all,
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> 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). 
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> 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:\.
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> I tried to do this this morning with the following:
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> E:\P4> p4d -jc
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> E:\P4> p4 set -s P4ROOT="D:\"
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> E:\P4> p4 admin stop
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> E:\P4> p4d -r d:\ -jr checkpoint.xxx journal.xxx-1
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> 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.
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> Then, when restarting the server I get 
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> Connect to server failed; check $P4PORT.
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> TCP connect to 1666 failed.
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> connect: 1666: WSAECONNREFUSED
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> 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.
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> My questions are:
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> Am I making the right steps to make the migration work?
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> 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?
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> Cheers,
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> Benjamin Nias
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