[mythtv-users] Downgrading from 0.28 to 0.27.

John McEntee jmcentee9 at gmail.com
Thu Feb 4 16:12:12 UTC 2016


On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 3:04 PM, Hika van den Hoven <hikavdh at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hoi Will,
>
> Thursday, February 4, 2016, 3:18:44 PM, you wrote:
>
> > On 2/4/16 12:13 AM, Jean-Yves Avenard wrote:
> >> On 4 February 2016 at 15:02, Will Dormann <wdormann at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> Hmmm, you did a system upgrade without making a system backup first?
> >>> Bold move...
> >>
> >> the first thing the backend (or mythtv-setup) does before upgrading is
> >> performing a backup.
> >>
> >> mythbackend won't upgrade until the backup has succeeded
> >> with mythtv-setup you can override that but it's not the default.
> >>
> >> So typically, upgrading == having a backup somewhere
>
>
> > Got it.   I was talking about a system backup, as opposed to a database
> > backup, though.   I guess I'm a bit more paranoid than most.
>
> > If things don't work, just restore your system backup.  No need to muck
> > around with anything else.
>
>
> > -WD
>
> Ah, but before restoring a system backup, be sure not to overwrite
> your DB with an older one. So do a DB backup!
>
>
I like my plan that involves taking a snapshot of the Virtual Machine in a
power off state before any update/upgrade. Then you just restore/rollback
to the previous snapshot. Just need to test everything is still working
with a random recording soon etc after the update/upgrade
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