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footeo · Joined: 09 Aug 2005 Posts: 105

I haven't tried it yet and I thought I would ask here before I really get things messed up. Is it possible to downgrade R6 to R5.5 using a backup created in R6? I have been using R6 now for about 2 months or and I am regretting my upgrade. Is their any going back or are too many of the paths different now? I am a little bit hung up on trying to get things working in Arch and would rather go back to R5.5. I am just WAY more comfortable working in a Debian based distro than Arch. I must be getting old or something because I am feeling a little too set in my ways to make the switch now. (Said while shaking my rake in frustration at you)
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graysky · Joined: 10 Dec 2003 Posts: 1754 Location: /dev/null

I don't think you can go back, but someone correct me if I'm wrong. I would say just tough it out; the future of LinHES is Arch, you're going to have to learn it at some point Smile

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larrybpsu · Joined: 07 Mar 2007 Posts: 155 Location: Uniontown, PA

graysky is correct. You can not restore a R5.5 setup from a R6 backup.

These upgrades are the point of no return, unless you have an older R5.5 backup to get to. Remember that KM's backups keep previous backups, and just add numbers to the versions. Check your backup directory and see if there's an older version that you remember creating with R5.5.

tscholl · Joined: 10 Apr 2006 Posts: 289 Location: Lexington, Ky

You might be in luck, unless you deleted the backup you used to do the R6 upgrade, a copy should still exist in you backups directory.

jayb282 · Joined: 13 Feb 2005 Posts: 53

Greg Frost · Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2009 3:33 am Post subject:

I'd be interested in knowing exactly what it was that you found lacking in R6. The first step to fixing it is posting about your issues.

jayb282 · Joined: 13 Feb 2005 Posts: 53

benotto · Joined: 29 Mar 2005 Posts: 62 Location: Torino, ITALY

tjc · Joined: 25 Mar 2004 Posts: 9120 Location: Arlington, MA

cliffsjunk · Joined: 15 Sep 2006 Posts: 292

In the past it has been a no-no to run later version FE's with older version BE's. The FE's somehow cause the BE to upgrade the DB and boom! If you assume this will happen and make a backup of the 5gig(minus) root partition (clonezilla device->image) then you can get back to square one in 20 minutes.

At least that is what I understood from users using Ubuntu FE's with a KM BE a couple years ago or so.

A Clonezilla backup of just the 5 gig root partition (and boot sector / hidden data / partition table) is a good way to recover from botched UPGRADES (where the data partition does not get changed). Don't do a fresh install though as that will wipe out your data on the big partition.

cecil · Posted: Fri Apr 02, 2010 8:27 am Post subject:

There should be no issue is going back to R5.5 from LinHES 6.01.00. 6.02.00 however has MythTV 0.22 since there is a schema change in 0.22, that would prove more difficult.