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
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