Hi! We have added two options to devpi-server which might help to reduce the downtime during a devpi-server update. The first one ``--hard-links`` is for exports. It creates hard-links to releases and doc zips instead of copying the data. The usual OS specific things apply. For most OS's the current server status and the export destination needs to be in the same filesystem. The operation itself is safe as long as no files in the export are modified, since they point to the actual files of devpi-server. The export is a lot faster and obviously needs way less space with that option instead of a regular export. If the hard linking doesn't work, there will be an error very early in the export process. The second option ``--no-events`` is relevant for imports. When used, no plugin hooks in devpi-web etc are called during import. Instead all the events will be triggered once the server starts again. This massively reduces the time needed for import. The downside is, that rendering of descriptions, unpacking of documentation and the indexing of everything happens step by step while the server is already running. Until all events have been processed, the server is usable, but the mentioned items are only available up to the currently processed event. So for a while the search won't return everything and the docs won't all be accessible. The import still needs the full space as before. It's not possible to use hard links for the import. Regards, Florian Schulze