[p4] Merging Multiple Perforce Server Databases to a Single Server - DAVID Foglesong - com.perforce.perforce-user

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Terry Ridgway	16 Jun 2004 09:29
jab	16 Jun 2004 10:10
Tetlow, Gordon	16 Jun 2004 10:55
DAVID Foglesong	16 Jun 2004 10:55

Subject:	[p4] Merging Multiple Perforce Server Databases to a Single Server
From:	DAVID Foglesong (defo...@msn.com)
Date:	06/16/2004 10:55:18 AM
List:	com.perforce.perforce-user

Perforce has a "perfmerge" script that will combine databases. This should be on their FTP server. Check with Perforce support for more details.

I've used this script in the past to successfully merge systems. As you already indicated, depots with the same name will be an issue, so you will have to first rename the depots to be non-conflicting.

I'm assuming all the systems in question are running on the same server OS -- if you're trying to combine Windows and Unix/Linux systems, that's a lot more work.

From: "Terry Ridgway" <tridgway at visto.com>

To: <perforce-user at perforce.com> Subject: [p4] Merging Multiple Perforce Server Databases to a Single Server Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 09:29:35 -0700

Hi All,

We have 3 perforce servers from 3 companies that have merged into one company. The servers are remotely located, and we feel that development would be better served by combining the servers and using proxies, since this will cut down on the number of licenses that we'll need. Each engineer has 2 or 3 licenses to access all of the servers, and we want to consolidate.

Has anyone ever successfully completed this task?

I know there will be issues with duplicate depot names, but I can't find any information on the Perforce web site as to how this task would be accomplished, with or without conflicting depot names.

Thanks

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