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P4 Server Administration Documentation | 2025.1

# Populate 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 P4 Server to archive stored 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In either case, only those forms that have not yet been archived are added to the spec depot; after the spec depot is created, you only need to use `p4 admin updatespecdepot` once.

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