Can Perforce backup files?

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Published on 2009-10-19T09:12:47Z Indexed on 2010/04/02 21:13 UTC
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From reading the Perforce docs it sounds like only changelists and version history can be backed up. Is it possible to get Perforce to create a backup of files too, so that in the event of loss, through hardware failure for example, a complete set of files could be recovered?

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