Thanks Sam, I was going to mention that. Govind is on holiday at the
moment, but I think Sam and Wahid were his close advisors.
Sam Skipsey wrote:
> I believe that Govind did precisely that as part of the Great RHUL Migration.
>
> In any case, the first and most important caveat is always: the head
> node must maintain the same FQDN. (It doesn't matter if the ip it
> resolves to changes.)
>
> IIRC, there are some technical caveats concerning avoidance of
> complications transitioning from MySQL4 to a MySQL5 database (which is
> what you'll be doing, considering the versions of MySQL on SL4,5), but
> these are covered in the MySQL documentation in more detail than I can
> remember them, so I won't do you the disservice of garbling my advice
> to you at present.
>
> Sam
>
> On 14 July 2010 10:52, Matt Doidge <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> As a kinda-related aside, has anyone recent experiance doing a DPM
>> headnode OS upgrade, with a database dump/restore onto a fresh SL5 DPM
>> install? We'll be embarking on this adventure soon and would like be
>> forewarned of any gotchas anyone else may have seen (and perhaps
>> wikified...).
>>
>> cheers,
>> Matt
>> (just back from taking his cat to the vet - my apologies to Sam and
>> Brian for not attending the storage meeting today)
>>
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