Recover from an Upgrade Failure

You have the option to recover from an upgrade failure by rerunning the upgrade, or perform a fresh installation, and then restore the system from a backup.

About this task

Follow this procedure to recover from an upgrade failure.

Procedure

  1. To rerun the upgrade, complete the following steps for the type of upgrade you were attempting:
    1. Migrate XCO from a Single-Node to a Multi-Node Deployment using Interactive Mode
    2. Migrate XCO from a Single-Node to a Multi-Node Deployment using Single CLI
    3. Upgrade XCO on TPVM in a Single-Node Deployment
    4. Upgrade Fabric using Interactive Mode and Upgrade Fabric using Single CLI
    5. Upgrade XCO in a Multi-Node Deployment using Interactive Mode
    6. Upgrade XCO in a Multi-Node Deployment using Single CLI
    7. Upgrade XCO on TPVM in a Multi-Node Deployment
    8. Migrate TPVM Single-Node to Multi-Node
  2. To perform a fresh installation and restore the system backup, complete the following steps:
    1. Uninstall XCO to remove any components that might have been installed before the upgrade failed.
    2. Follow the steps for the type of installation you need.
    3. Restore the XCO backup.
      efa system restore --backup-tar <filename>.tar.gz
      For more information about backup tar files, see the "XCO System Backup and Restoration" section of the ExtremeCloud Orchestrator Command Reference, 3.5.0 .