[mythtv-users] Downgrading from 0.28 to 0.27.

[Jean-Yves Avenard]

On 4 February 2016 at 15:02, Will Dormann <wdormann at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2/3/16 6:22 AM, Ian Barton wrote:
>> I am currently running my backend on ArchLinux and its 0.27. Arch
>> recently upgraded to PHP7, which has completley broken MythWeb. I have
>> tried reverting back to PHP 5.x, but am having multiple
>> problems.
>
> 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