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

[Dave Birkhead]

Call Perforce licensing. They will be happy to give you a temporary license to do this work.

Typically it will last a month and then expire.

Good luck,

-Daveb

---- 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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