[mythtv-users] If I go for 0.25 can I downgrade afterward

[Chris Lewis]

Well that sounds acceptable, I've no recordings scheduled until tomorrow
night so should give me all day.

Can you enlighten me as to what I should do if I break it :-)

Chris
On Apr 5, 2012 10:42 PM, "Raymond Wagner" <raymond at wagnerrp.com> wrote:

> No.
>
> On 4/5/2012 16:36, Chris Lewis wrote:
>
>> If it is, and for some reason it all goes horribly wrong, how difficult
>> is it to undo it all?   Would it be a reinstall to get my working 0.24
>> system back.
>>
>
> You can install an old version of the software, but the database schema
> updates are one-way-only.  You can upgrade, but you cannot downgrade.  When
> you run mythtv-setup or the master backend and let it upgrade the database,
> it will automatically produce a dump file.  Should you wish you revert, a
> few simple commands will let you drop your database, and recover from that
> dump file, however you will lose any information modified since the moment
> you dumped.  If you made any recordings after that point, they will end up
> orphaned.
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