How to move or backup symbol server?

Question

I have been storing symbols for my builds on my local machine using the following command:

call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\Debuggers\x64\symstore.exe" add /r /f .\*.* /s "C:\Users\Sam\symbols" /t "Application" /v "rev %SVN_REVISION%" /c "adding revision %SVN_REVISION%"

This has been working fine so far for debugging crashes. However now I want to make these available to other people on a central server I need to know how to move this symbol server. Just copying the folder doesn't work, there are some examples in the documentation however they seem to deal with moving pointers to the symbols and the example given:

symstore add /y \\hubserver\hubshare\myindex.txt /g \\myarchive\appserver /s \\sampledir\symsrv /p /t "Large Application" /v "Build 432" /c "Sample Add from Index"

is for moving a single entry when I want to move all of them.

I tried guessing at this syntax with:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\Debuggers\x64\symstore.exe" /g C:\Users\Sam\symbols /s \\public\symbols

But this wasn't a recognised command.

Answer 1

Found this answer at https://www.wintellect.com/merging-symbol-servers/ The simplest case is just to create the new symbol server, and merge all the current files into it with something like:

symstore add /r /f \\Retiring\Share /s \\Combined\Share /t "Merging Symbol Servers"