System requirements

Replica servers must match the master server in the following:

• release version - see Upgrading replica servers and the Support Knowledgebase article, "Upgrading Replica Servers"
• Unicode setting and encoding, such as UTF-8
• file system case-sensitivity

• permitted characters - for example:

  • MacOS file names cannot contain a colon (:)
  • Windows NTFS excludes / ? < > \ : * | " and a full path is limited to 260 characters

• time zone setting

  • On Windows, the time zone setting is system-wide
  • On UNIX, the time zone setting is controlled by the TZ environment variable at the time the replica server is started

 Additionally,

• p4 pull (when replicating metadata) does not read compressed journals.
  • The master server must not compress journals until the replica server has fetched all journal records from older journals.
  • Only one metadata-updating p4 pull thread can be active at one time.
• The replica server does not need a duplicate license file.