Helix Core Server Administrator Guide: Multi-Site Deployment (2019.2)

Server options to control metadata and depot access

When you start a replica that points to a master server with P4TARGET, you must specify both the -M (metadata access) and a -D (depot access) options, or set the configurables db.replication (access to metadata) and lbr.replication (access the depot’s library of versioned files) to control which Helix server commands are permitted or rejected by the replica server.