Display history of checkpoint and journal activity for the server.

p4 [g-opts] journals [-F filter] [-T fields] [-m max]

Use the p4 journals command to display information from the db.ckphist table, which holds historical information about checkpoint and journal activity. A server uses this table to record the following checkpoint and journal events:

Each server in a multi-server installation has its own, unique db.ckphist table. That is, the table is not replicated to replicas. This table is not part of the main server database; it’s not journaled, and it does not need to be backed up. It is not included in checkpoints. If anything goes wrong, it can be thrown away.

Here’s an example of the output from p4 journals.

mbp-jbujes:~ jbujes$ p4 -p qaplay:20141 journals
... start 1381278576
... startDate 2013/10/08 17:29:36
... end 1381278576
... endDate 2013/10/08 17:29:36
... pid 19960
... type checkpoint
... flags
... jnum 19
... jfile checkpoint.19
... jdate 1381278576
... jdateDate 2013/10/08 17:29:36
... jdigest E4EB1FF5B589D05E9F5A8EE1F8183A86
... jsize 27183115
... jtype text
... failed 0
... errmsg

... start 1381278576
... startDate 2013/10/08 17:29:36
... end 1381278576
... endDate 2013/10/08 17:29:36
... pid 19960
... type checkpoint
... flags
... jnum 18
... jfile journal.18
... jdate 1381278575
... jdateDate 2013/10/08 17:29:35
... jdigest 00000000000000000000000000000000
... jsize 15737
... jtype text
... failed 1
... errmsg

... start 1374629669
... startDate 2013/07/23 18:34:29
... end 1374629669
... endDate 2013/07/23 18:34:29
... pid 14700
... type replay
... flags -r . -j r
... jnum -1
... jfile basis.ckp
... jdate 1366076427
... jdateDate 2013/04/15 18:40:27
... jdigest 00000000000000000000000000000000
... jsize 27181640
... jtype text
... failed 1
... errmsg

This command displays full error message text for a failed checkpoint.

Use the global -F option to format the output from the p4 journals; for example:

p4 -F "%jfile% %jnum%" journals -F type=checkpoint

The meaning of each field is described in the following table. Output entries are listed from newest event to oldest event.