diff --git a/icewind/VERSION b/icewind/VERSION
index 0372533c..d24693fe 100644
--- a/icewind/VERSION
+++ b/icewind/VERSION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ## deployable containers have a semantic and build tag
 # semantic version tag: major.minor[.patch]
 # build version tag: timestamp
-VER=0.9.4
+VER=0.9.5
 TAGS="${VER} ${VER}-$(date --utc +"%Y%m%dT%H%M%S")"
 unset VER
diff --git a/icewind/src/main/java/org/opencadc/icewind/DeletionHarvester.java b/icewind/src/main/java/org/opencadc/icewind/DeletionHarvester.java
index 47baf37d..f69468cc 100644
--- a/icewind/src/main/java/org/opencadc/icewind/DeletionHarvester.java
+++ b/icewind/src/main/java/org/opencadc/icewind/DeletionHarvester.java
@@ -85,6 +85,7 @@
 import java.util.ListIterator;
 import java.util.Map;
 import javax.naming.NamingException;
+import javax.sql.DataSource;
 import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
 
 /**
@@ -139,12 +140,23 @@ private void init() {
         this.repoClient = new RepoClient(src.getResourceID(), 1);
 
         // destination
+        final String destDS = "jdbc/DeletionHarvester";
+        
         Map<String, Object> destConfig = getConfigDAO(dest);
-        ConnectionConfig destConnectionConfig = new ConnectionConfig(null, null,
-                dest.getUsername(), dest.getPassword(), HarvesterResource.POSTGRESQL_DRIVER, dest.getJdbcUrl());
-        final String destDS = "jdbc/destObsHarvest";
         try {
-            DBUtil.createJNDIDataSource(destDS, destConnectionConfig);
+            DataSource cur = null;
+            try {
+                cur = DBUtil.findJNDIDataSource(destDS);
+            } catch (NamingException notInitialized) {
+                log.debug("JNDI not initialized yet... OK");
+            }
+            if (cur == null) {
+                ConnectionConfig destConnectionConfig = new ConnectionConfig(null, null,
+                    dest.getUsername(), dest.getPassword(), HarvesterResource.POSTGRESQL_DRIVER, dest.getJdbcUrl());
+                DBUtil.createJNDIDataSource(destDS, destConnectionConfig);
+            } else {
+                log.debug("found DataSource: " + destDS + " -- re-using");
+            }
         } catch (NamingException e) {
             throw new IllegalStateException(String.format("Error creating destination JNDI datasource for %s reason: %s",
                     dest, e.getMessage()));
diff --git a/icewind/src/main/java/org/opencadc/icewind/ObservationHarvester.java b/icewind/src/main/java/org/opencadc/icewind/ObservationHarvester.java
index c08fc414..8ac17ff2 100644
--- a/icewind/src/main/java/org/opencadc/icewind/ObservationHarvester.java
+++ b/icewind/src/main/java/org/opencadc/icewind/ObservationHarvester.java
@@ -145,15 +145,25 @@ private void init(int nthreads) {
         this.srcObservationService = new RepoClient(src.getResourceID(), nthreads);
 
         // dest is always a database
+        final String destDS = "jdbc/ObservationHarvester";
         Map<String, Object> destConfig = getConfigDAO(dest);
-        ConnectionConfig destConnectionConfig = new ConnectionConfig(null, null,
-                dest.getUsername(), dest.getPassword(), HarvesterResource.POSTGRESQL_DRIVER, dest.getJdbcUrl());
-        final String destDS = "jdbc/obsHarvestDest";
         try {
-            DBUtil.createJNDIDataSource(destDS, destConnectionConfig);
+            DataSource cur = null;
+            try {
+                cur = DBUtil.findJNDIDataSource(destDS);
+            } catch (NamingException notInitialized) {
+                log.debug("JNDI not initialized yet... OK");
+            }
+            if (cur == null) {
+                ConnectionConfig destConnectionConfig = new ConnectionConfig(null, null,
+                    dest.getUsername(), dest.getPassword(), HarvesterResource.POSTGRESQL_DRIVER, dest.getJdbcUrl());
+                DBUtil.createJNDIDataSource(destDS, destConnectionConfig);
+            } else {
+                log.debug("found DataSource: " + destDS + " -- re-using");
+            }
         } catch (NamingException e) {
             throw new IllegalStateException(String.format("Error creating destination JNDI datasource for %s reason: %s",
-                    dest, e.getMessage()));
+                    dest, e.getMessage()), e);
         }
         destConfig.put("jndiDataSourceName", destDS);
         destConfig.put("basePublisherID", basePublisherID.toASCIIString());