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title: "Restoring old exports on newer releases"
canonical: "https://support.appfire.com/space/SUPPORT/89135930/Restoring%20old%20exports%20on%20newer%20releases"
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> ❌ **Do not edit** - page obsolete - moved to [WAC](https://wiki.appfire.com/display/BOBFIRE/Installation+list+-+Appfire)

Atlassian restricts the restoring of older exports on newer releases. Atlassian doesn't want to **support** this because of the testing implications I would guess. However, in practice, this has mainly been an inconvenience and not a blocker. Here is how to force the restore anyway.

### Steps

If a restore gives an error about build number:

1. get the higher build number from the error message
2. edit the exportDescriptor.properties in the zip file to update the number - easy to edit the zip directly in Eclipse remote systems
3. run the restore again