[p4] Reducing the size of Perforce data.

[Todd Short (tshort)]

This data is obviously important to the company... The loss of history
is irreplacable (usually). The backup team should look at this as an
opportunity to improve their backup capacity!

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-Todd Short
tshort at cisco.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com 
> [mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of Raghu Kumar C
> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 9:13 AM
> To: steve at vance.com; perforce-user at perforce.com
> Subject: Re: [p4] Reducing the size of Perforce data.
> 
> Steve,
> 
> 	Long after some Data becomes Junk. ;)
> If backing up was under my control I wouldn't have thought about this.
> We have a separate backup team who are forcing me to think of 
> someway to reduce the data. :(
> 
> Regards,
> Raghu
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: steve at vance.com [mailto:steve at vance.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 06:35 PM
> To: Raghu Kumar C; perforce-user at perforce.com
> Subject: Re: [p4] Reducing the size of Perforce data.
> 
> So you're saying you want to destroy your data so you can 
> preserve it more easily! :)
> 
> Have you considered a higher capacity tape or backing up to disk?
> 
> Steve
> 
> Original Message:
> -----------------
> From: Raghu Kumar C RaghuKumar.c at tavant.com
> Date: 	Wed, 23 May 2007 12:32:39 +0530
> To: perforce-user at perforce.com
> Subject: Re: [p4] Reducing the size of Perforce data.
> 
> 
> Steve/David,
> 
> 	The main reason to think of a 'p4 obliterate' is to 
> reduce the number of tapes used to do the backup. By doing 
> that if I can increase the performance of the server then 
> well and good. I have done checkpoint recoveries before to 
> salvage space from db files.
> 
> 	Talking of backup server I don't have one, we do a 
> differential backup daily and a complete backup weekly to a tape.
> 
> Regards
> Raghu
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com
> [mailto:perforce-user-bounces at perforce.com] On Behalf Of 
> David Weintraub
> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 08:54 PM
> To: Raghu Kumar C
> Cc: perforce-user at perforce.com
> Subject: Re: [p4] Reducing the size of Perforce data.
> 
> As others have pointed out, there are other ways to hide the 
> branch information.
> 
> * You can "delete" the branches by doing a "p4 delete". This 
> will remove the branches from the current view of your source 
> depot, but allows the branches to be present in older revisions.
> 
> * You can use the "p4 protect" to hide unused branches. This 
> is very quick, but can be tedious if you have lots of branches
> 
> * You can completely remove old information via "p4 
> obliterate". This is a completely permanent solution, and you 
> will never get the information back. You also won't save any 
> database space unless you rebuild your database from a checkpoint.
> 
> Do you have a backup Perforce server with a backup license, 
> and if not, why not? The Perforce backup license is free, and 
> a backup server runs less than $5K which (compared to your 
> Perforce licenses) is dirt cheap.
> 
> Why not try doing a Obliterate on the backup server, then do 
> a checkpoint and rebuild the database and see how much space 
> it actually saves and whether or not it is worth it.
> 
> On 5/22/07, Raghu Kumar C <RaghuKumar.c at tavant.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >         I have around 80 GB of data including my DB files. 
> We follow 
> > early branching and there are a lot of branches that were created to
> do
> > development work. Is it okay if I try to obliterate these 
> branches? If 
> > not is there any other way I can reduce the size of these branches?
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Raghu
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