Populating the spec depot with current forms

After you create a spec depot, you can populate it using the p4 admin updatespecdepot command. This command causes the Helix Server to archive stored forms (specifically, client, depot, branch, label, typemap, group, user, and job forms) into the spec depot.

To archive all current forms, use the -a flag:

$ p4 admin updatespecdepot -a

To populate the spec depot with only one type of form (for instance, extremely large sites might elect to update only one table at a time), use the -s flag and specify the form type on the command line. For example:

$ p4 admin updatespecdepot -s job

In either case, only those forms that have not yet been archived are added to the spec depot; after the spec depot is created, you only need to use p4 admin updatespecdepot once.