Upgrading Safana now, I'm running version eight point two point three, a good way to verify that is
to go to one of these pages, for example, configuration data sources there and at the bottom, it
says eight point two point three.
Now I haven't done anything with my server, so it's very safe to upgrade this to eight point 2.4 since
I point to point four is now available now.
Since I'm using the open source version, there is no guarantee of backwards compatibility, so this
is something you do at your own risk.
But right now, I don't have any data sources, so this is a completely safe thing to do.
But do expect that if you do upgrade Gravano, some of your data sources or dashboards are no longer
going to work.
And that's just the reality of using Safana is that there are new versions of Safana every two weeks
and something's going to break, so you just become good at it after a while figuring out how to fix
up something that no longer works.
If you do decide to upgrade your Farner, it's best to do it in small steps.
Say, for example, I'm going to go to 8.2.2 for that.
Why they were aren't going to be that many problems, as can be easy for me to refer to the documentation
and find out what has changed since the previous version.
But if you were to jump from version five to version eight, don't expect much to continue to work from
that because Safana changes quite a lot over the different major versions there.
So that's just the reality of using Gravano now.
Also, since I'm using digital ocean before I do an upgrade, I can do a snapshot of the server, so
I'm often a service admin page and digital version is an option here called snapshot, so I can take
a live snapshot and that takes a minute or two.
And then if I've broken my craft on a server, I can always restore from the life snapshot.
Now I've done snapshots several times in the past and recovered from them, and they work very well.
They just take a few minutes to create and to restore from whatever cloud platform you use will have
a different version of backing up or taking snapshots.
For me, this snapshot is by far the easiest way to do it.
I'm not going to take a snapshot of Mega-fauna servers since it's just brand new anyway, and it's no
risk whether I break it or not.
And if I do break it by upgrading to a point 2.4, I can always reinstall eight point two point three
anyway.
The other consideration I have is when I install Safana.
I select the Oasis version there and I used these instructions here.
But actually they were written as I point two point three when I installed the upgraded version just
shows the difference in numbers there.
If you want to know what all the numbers are, it's just in this dropdown here.
So eight point two point three they were the install instructions.
Eight point two point four is my new install instructions.
Now my server already has that, so I don't have to install that.
So I'm just going to run that.
I'm going to download the eight-point 2.4 and Debian package.
So copy that.
I'm on my server, right click.
So I'm using get to download the package.
100 per cent was very fast.
Now I can install it by running the Debian Package Manager.
Eight point 2.4 This technique I've shown you can be used to downgrade or upgrade.
Doesn't matter.
Just the numbers are the important things here.
So right click Python.
I mean the install, said Debian package manager on eight point 2.4 percent.
So.
So unpacking often a point to point for over eight point two points right there.
OK, so it's doing now the whole process is still going to be happening in the background for about
a minute if I go to this page and just refresh it.
It now says eight point two point four at the bottom.
Now this can take about a minute to happen, so it still says the audio version for you.
Just give it a little more time.
OK, so that's now a point to point.
For now, that's pretty much it for upgrading and downgrading, but remember, it's open source, it's
at your own risk.
And to minimize the amount of work in fixing problems due to upgrading to one number at a time, eight
point two point four means major minor patch either update each patch as they come through or update
each minor version.
So 8.3 is the next minor version.
But the major bang version nine, I wouldn't recommend going straight from first night to version nine
without at least going through some of the minor and patch versions beforehand.
Remember to take a snapshot before you start the upgrade process if you think that's important enough
using the options provided by your cloud platform.
Excellent.