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The archive feature of Rudder allows to:
- Exchange configuration between multiple Rudder instances, in particular when having distinct environments;
- Keep an history of major changes.
Export the current configuration of Rudder before you begin to make any change you have to test: if anything goes wrong, you can return to this archived state.
Assuming you have multiple Rudder instances, each on dedicated for the development, qualification and production environment. You can prepare the changes on the development instance, export an archive, deploy this archive on the qualification environment, then on the production environment.
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If you want to export and import configurations between environments, the version of the source and target Rudder server must be exactly the same. If the versions don’t match (even if only the minor versions are different), there is a risk that the import will break the configuration on the target Rudder server. |
