{"id":307,"date":"2011-12-23T10:12:05","date_gmt":"2011-12-23T10:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scmgalaxy.com\/tutorials\/2011\/12\/23\/depot-migration-between-perforce-servers-with-history-and-change-list\/"},"modified":"2025-02-01T22:39:43","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T22:39:43","slug":"depot-migration-between-perforce-servers-with-history-and-change-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/depot-migration-between-perforce-servers-with-history-and-change-list\/","title":{"rendered":"Depot Migration between perforce servers with history and change list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3862 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scmgalaxy.com\/tutorials\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/migration-between-perforce-.png\" alt=\"depot-migration-between-perforce-servers\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/migration-between-perforce-.png 600w, https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/migration-between-perforce--300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>There are many questions asked for the depot migration between server without losing any of the history\u00a0 such as&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Moving depots across servers<\/li>\n<li>Moving depots between servers<\/li>\n<li>Move a product depot from one Perforce server to another<\/li>\n<li>Depot Migration between perforce servers with history and change list<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>There are one solution which i find worth to try it out?<\/strong><br \/>\n1.\u00a0 Take A full backup of Source perforce server including jounals and file systems using checkpoint featres<br \/>\n2.\u00a0 Then obliterate everything in the Source server that you didn&#8217;t want to copy &#8211; and remove redundant changelists with p4 change -f -d (refer p4 manuals)<br \/>\n3.\u00a0 Go back to the Source server and obliterate the bit you&#8217;ve moved and remove redunant changelists again.<br \/>\n4. Now using p4merge tool, you can merger source and destination servers. this tools will help you for how to merge two separate servers into a single combined server using the Perfmerge++ utility.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is Perfmerge++?<\/strong><br \/>\nPerfmerge++ is a tool for merging two Perforce repositories to produce a third repository; it replaces the venerable perfmerge2.pl script. Unlike its predecessor, perfmerge++ does not work with checkpoints, rather it accesses the database files directly and creates new database files in the target directory. These new database files contain the merged content.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reference:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/kb.perforce.com\/article\/911\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/kb.perforce.com\/article\/911<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"ftp:\/\/ftp.perforce.com\/perforce\/tools\/perfmerge\/perfmerge.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ftp:\/\/ftp.perforce.com\/perforce\/tools\/perfmerge\/perfmerge.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many questions asked for the depot migration between server without losing any of the history\u00a0 such as&#8230; Moving depots across servers Moving depots between servers Move a product depot from one Perforce server to another Depot Migration between perforce servers with history and change list There are one solution which i find worth&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","_joinchat":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[370],"tags":[1720,1960,2622,2625,2630,1122,2624,2631,545,2627,2623,2636,373,2628,2626,2632,2634,2633,2635,593,2375,2629,104,1452],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-perforce","tag-between","tag-changelist","tag-depot","tag-depot-migration","tag-depot-migration-between-servers","tag-guide","tag-history","tag-history-and-change-list","tag-how","tag-migrating-servers","tag-migration","tag-moving-depots-across-servers","tag-perforce","tag-perforce-depots","tag-perforce-servers","tag-perforce-servers-guide","tag-perforce-servers-instructions","tag-perforce-servers-tutorials","tag-perforce-tutorials","tag-process","tag-servers","tag-servers-migration","tag-tutorials","tag-ways"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3864,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions\/3864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devopsschool.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}