Re: [p4] Hot backup server on different os from main server?
Domenic <[email protected]>
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Posted on behalf of forum user 'Domenic'. When we moved from a Windows server to a Linux server we were basically in this same situation. At the time we still had a Windows backup server, but the migration process was basically "setup a Linux server as a replica with -C1 then run 'p4 verify -qt' to get all the files migrated". That was (still is?) based on a recommendation from one of the Perforce consultants since the verify will handle line ending conversion as part of the replication. Depending on your depot mappings you may also need to account for something like q:\root on the Linux box; in our case we just setup a symlink so we could support both OS's at the same time. When the time came to make the Linux server the master we just stopped the instances, updated the server.id, and repointed our DNS entries to the new server. All in all it went really smooth* Someone from Tableau gave a presentation at the user conference last year that you may want to check out. It is at https://www.slideshare.net/perforce/from-windows-to-linux-converting-a-distributed-perforce-helix-infrastructure . I thought there was a KB article on the migration process from Windows -> Linux but all I could find were these two articles that may (not) be useful to you: http://answers.perforce.com/articles/KB/2538 http://answers.perforce.com/articles/KB/3080 * = the one really memorable issue was due to the initial file seeding via 'verify -qt'. We had a file stored in RCS format with a lot of revisions (15k+) so it caused a problem for the pull threads we were running as each one was polling rdb.lbr to track what needed to be done. The net result was replication slowed WAY down (like, 1 revision every couple minutes). In hindsight it would have been much smoother to just copy that one file then run dos2unix on it. -- Please click here to see the post in its original format: http://forums.perforce.com/index.php?/topic/5571-hot-backup-server-on-different-os-from-main-server _______________________________________________ perforce-user mailing list - [email protected] http://maillist.perforce.com/mailman/listinfo/perforce-user