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CescCesc
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October 2, 2023
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Does FortiNAC Downgrade support?

  • October 2, 2023
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does fortinac support downgrade?

What is your interpretation of the following comment in the FortiNAC documentation (Typical Scenarios 3.-)?  Is it possible to revert the FortiNAC version on a hardware device? For example: Go from version v9.4.4 to version v9.1.5?

--------- FortiNAC Documentation ------------
Database Using CLI
Typical Scenarios:
1.- The disk fails on a RAID-less appliance.
2.- The appliance has been reset to factory defaults, and you want to restore the pre-reset
remote backup of the database.
3.- You have upgraded the FortiNAC hardware and want to restore the most recent remote
backup from the previous FortiNAC appliance.
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4 replies

adambomb1219
SuperUser
SuperUser
October 2, 2023

Why would you want to?

CescCesc
CescCescAuthor
New Member
October 2, 2023

We need to upgrade our client's fortinac from version v9.1.5 to version v9.4.4. If there are problems in the new version and we want to rollback, how would it be achieved?

adambomb1219
SuperUser
SuperUser
October 2, 2023

I would personally open a TAC case before rolling back. 

akanibek
Staff
Staff
October 3, 2023

Hi folks, 

there is no downgrade option. You should follow the upgrade instruction, and proper upgrade path. 

Before each upgrading step - make a snapshot of VM.

https://docs.fortinet.com/document/fortinac/9.1.0/upgrade-instructions-and-considerations/808595/overview

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