Compatibility images Ignite UX

[Hamerlik Christophe]

Hi everybody,

I have an Ignite server version B.3.7.95.
And I have some Images Ignite from an old Ignite server B.3.6.82. Do you know if I can use the old images with my new Ignite Server ? Do I have to change something or just update some parameters int the archive_cfg file ?

Best regards,
Christophe

[Hamdy Al-Sebaey]

Hi Hamerlik,
I think both the client & the server must have the same version.
Regards,
Hamdy

[Tracy_5]

I also believe client and server must be the same version. I don't believe there is a supported way to allow previous versions of ignite to install from a ignite-ux server running the newer version of ignite.

There are two ways that you can check for what version of Ignite/UX another
system is running. The first is the file /opt/ignite/Version which contains the
revision string for the Ignite version (e.g. B.3.7.95) which an ignite client
can use to ensure that it is running the same version as the server. The other
method to use is swlist which would get the revision string for each ignite
fileset to ensure that they're all the same and they're the same version as the
client.
The swlist list method is impossible to fool, but I suppose you may be able to play with the /opt/ignite/Version file. I am certain that this would be totally unsupported, however.

Tracy

[Ray Brewer]

If I understand your question correctly you want to know if the archive images you created with the older version of ignite can be used to Ignite a system using the new version. Yes they will work. We recently upgraded Ignite here and all of our Images worked fine with the new release.

Ray

[Donnie Darko]

I confirm , you ca use an old images.
But in order to be able to do news image and backup the clients should have the same versions of ignite than the server.