Upgrading Shares
Important: IBM Aspera supports direct upgrades to the current General Availability (GA)
version from only two GA versions prior to the current release. To upgrade to the latest version,
you must be within two GA versions of the current version. Upgrading from older version requires
upgrading in steps. For example, if you are four GA versions behind, upgrade to two GA versions
behind (GA - 2), and then upgrade to the current GA version.
Important: To upgrade an IBM Aspera Shares HA deployment please follow the Upgrading the HA Environment instructions.
Warning:
Review the following prior to performing any upgrade:
- Perform a full environment back up and ensure the back up is successful. In case the upgrade fails, the only reliable, short-term fix is to roll back the environment using the back up.
- Test the upgrade in a test environment comparable to the production environment.
- If upgrading the test environment is successful, upgrade the production environment, but do not bring the production environment back online.
- Prior to bringing the production environment back online, the customer must test the application to determine if an immediate rollback is needed. Otherwise, customers risk losing all data generated between upgrade and rollback.
Note: You can only upgrade to this release from an installation
of 1.5 or higher.
Shares is now running and accessible from the IP address or domain name configured
during installation.
Note: If after upgrading, Shares does not load in the browser,
check to see if Nginx is running on the Shares machine. If Nginx is not running,
and trying to restart the service manually results in the error message below,
follow the instructions in Disabling IPv6 Support in Shares to disable Nginx from
listening to IPv6
ports.
nginx: [emerg] socket() [::]:80 failed (97: Address family not supported by protocol)