[p4] migrating 4Tb depot

Benjamin Nias ben.nias at rocksteadyltd.com
Fri Oct 3 14:11:24 PDT 2008


Hi all,

 

I'm soon to be migrating our depot from a SCSi-bus/SATA-drive array over
to a FC-bus/SAS-drive array for performance and scalability gains.
Source is a Windows 2003 x86 and destination is a Windows 2008 x64.

 

The depot is currently running at about 3.5Tb and I expect it to be up
to ~4Tb by the time I can perform the migration. 

 

I've read through the documentation for this process
(http://kb.perforce.com/AdminTasks/SuperuserTasks/MovingThePerforceServe
r) and feel comfortable with everything. 

 

I was hoping to ask three questions:

 

1.    From the size of the depot can anyone estimate how long the
pre-copy verify will take

2.    From the size of the depot can anyone estimate how long the
post-copy verify will take (if diff from above)

3.    Has anyone performed this procedure and have any advice or tips!

 

Thanks as always!

 

Ben

 

 

 

 

Benjamin Nias

Systems Administrator

Rocksteady Studios Limited

 

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