[p4] How import a production database on a fresh server .

[Jeff A. Bowles]

Send email to the license-folks / support-folks asking if you can have a
second license file with the IP address of your backup/test machine.
I believe they have a procedure (in effect, it's "sign this and send it
back, and we'll take care of you then") that will address this.

Do not bother figuring out how to excise the workspace definitions from your
checkpoints. (In general, checkpoint-surgery is messy, and worse, the
workspace definitions are multiple-line entries with joins to other tables.
 The rule-of-thumb for checkpoint surgery is, "don't - and if you do, have
someone from tech support on the telephone hearing the keystrokes and
perhaps even watching over your shoulder."  The reasoning is, when you break
the checkpoint, you're gonna call 'em for assistance anyway, so why not give
yourself better odds by involving them before the break happens.)

Go the second-license-file route.  It's easier and faster.

   -Jeff Bowles


On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Loïc Dalbègue <ldalbegue at edengames.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a perforce server in production with a database with 80 users and
> 260 workspace. Recently i found some corruption in my database so I want
> to verify that with the p4 verify command, but i takes to long time for
> my production server. So i want to restore my database on another fresh
> perforce server with no licence to launch the p4 verify with no impact
> to my production server.
> I copy my depot files, and i want to restore my database with a
> checkpoint file but on the fresh no licenced server i have some
> limitation !! 2 users and 5 workspaces so after the restore the fresh
> server doesn't start.
>
> I already drop the users from my checkpoint file with this command :
> grep -v @db.user@ checkpoint > checkpointnew.
> But how drop the workspace (clients) from my checkpoint too because the
> server doesn't start anymore with this error :
> Perforce server error:
>    Unlicensed server cannot start while over user/client quota.
>    Try deleting old clients with 'client -d'.
>    License count: 263 clients used of 5 licensed.
>
> Thx for your help.
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