title: Restoring an OpenEdge v10 database into v11
body: <p>I am brand new to the OpenEdge database platform and so far am really struggling. I have a client who has given me a backup of his database (a single <code>.bak</code> file) which was taken from OpenEdge v10. I only have a OpenEdge v11 database server.</p>
  
  <p>We do not own OpenEdge or anything, so as far as I am aware getting my hands on v10 is probably impossible. Our client just wants me to poke around in the database to see what I can find, so I'm not prepared to put too much money into this.</p>
  
  <p>When I try to do the restore, I get:</p>
  
  <pre><code>C:\Progress\OpenEdge\bin&gt;prorest.bat E:\Progress\ServicePro\ServicePro "E:\Progress\svcpro_l.bak"
  OpenEdge Release 11.3 as of Wed Jul 17 16:46:26 EDT 2013
  Start of extending target DB to needed size... (9432)
  Version number mismatch, backup has 4246, database has 4269. (16691)
  Restore failed. (1618)
  !!! ERROR - Database restore utility FAILED !!! (8564)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I have searched as much as I can and found this <a href="http://knowledgebase.progress.com/articles/Article/000029439?retURL=/apex/progresskbsearch&amp;popup=false" rel="nofollow">KB article</a>, but it seems to not apply to restoring a database, rather a copied database.</p>
  
  <p>How can I restore a Progress OpenEdge database backup that was taken from v10 into v11?</p>