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Hi folks - is it possible to restart a flow run but with a different context or run config ?

The use case is we specify our resource requirements (memory and cpu) via the flow’s context. Our flow run failed due to OOM error, so would like to re-run it but supply it with more resources by updating our context …

Hey <@U0141PE1A84>, I don’t think so because restarts will use the same context. Maybe you could use caching though to preserve the old run results when you kick off a new flow run?

Hi <@U01QEJ9PP53> thank you for your quick response

I see - yes having caching enabled would have resolved this I suppose …

So there is no way to run a flow with an old flow run’s results without caching right ?

it sort of places a bit of a constraint - i.e. if the cache gets invalidated one can’t really do much to recover a failure

You can make a temporary flow run and set the `target` for the file so that it would check for the existence of that file and then load the data