[p4] Journal restore on server after obliterating some depots

Posted on behalf of forum user 'charlieb'.

Attempting to migrate to a new perforce server and after migration half of
depots will be obliterated. Process will take a few days and want to minimize
the actual cut over downtime. 

Servers:
System A: Current master server, contains everything
System B: New server that will house a few select depots from System A.

Steps:
1. Checkpoint System A
2. Replay that checkpoint on System B
3. Obliterate some depots on System B
4. A few days later, replay the journal from System A on to System B.

Will the journal correctly update the existing depots or will it barf and die
once it attempts to update a depot that was obliterated in step 3? I know
there's the perfsplit tool but I want to do this the hardway (unless the
perfsplit tool can safely run on a replica server to avoid master downtime)



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