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Quoting Ewan MacMahon <[log in to unmask]>: > Hi all, > > It strikes me that is should be possible in principle to > upgrade the OS on a DPM disk server without draining it by > simply installing the new OS over the old one and setting > up a fresh install of the DPM pool node. All the file > metadata is stored on the head node, and the files' physical > paths won't change. > > However, I'm not aware of anyone doing this. Does this > sound like it should work and has anyone actually tried? > > Or indeed does everyone do this routinely and I've just > never noticed..... > > Ewan > I've been doing this over the past day or so. Didn't "install the OS over the new one" though, kickstarted from scratch to SL5, leaving the storage array intact. Owen