[mythtv-users] Downgrading from 0.28 to 0.27.

[Hika van den Hoven]

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!


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