It looks like there is something wrong with your checkpointing operation. I'm assuming you checkpoint every evening before performing a backup. When I perform this operation, I get a new journal file and the original one gets renames to "journal.<sequence_number>". This operation is handled by Perforce. I use a different checkpoint file name every night, so I get a history of these. This is handled by me, not Perforce.

The actual commands I use to do this would look somewhat like the following:

export P4JOURNAL=${backup_directory}/journal check_file=`$DATE "+${backup_directory}/c_%y%m%d_%H%M%S"` ${P4D} -r ${p4_depot} -jc ${check_file} 2>&1

While I have not had to use the checkpoint/journal files, I'm glad they're around. If you only had the checkpoint file, corruption of the data base files would force to restore to the depot state at the time of your last backup. If you have both, you can restore the state of the depot up to the last operation recorded in the journal. Most, if not all, of the operations performed on the depot would be recoverable.

The flip side is, if you have to restore both the delta and data base files, they won't help you.

thanx, jack c.

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On Thu, 21 May 1998, Yariv Sheizaf wrote: