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How to revert OpenProject to an old version
Added by Keith Brautigam 2 months ago
I need to figure out how to revert OpenProject to an older version. Specifically, how to revert the latest Community Edition to our current version (10.6.5).
I don't actually need to do this, and hopefully won't. We are planning to upgrade OpenProject, and my boss is demanding that I be prepared to completely revert in case the upgrade fails.
We have OpenProject 10.6.5 Community running on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS using Postgres 9.6. The server is not a dedicated one... it's running lots of other software.
Thanks very much for any advice that you can provide!
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Hi,
The most easy and fastest way is to create a snapshot of your server's OS and disk and then you will be able to restore the snapshot. This has nothing to do with OpenProject or any software that runs on that server.
First of all what you need is to make a backup of the database and attachments in the Administration / Backup
You will be always able to restore that backup on a version equal or newer than 10.6.5
If you want to upgrade to 12, then please allow me to suggest to install version 12 on a NEW server first and try to restore your backup, usually if you share a server then today you use virtualization and it is not recommended to run two different software on the same OS if you do not use docker or any other container solution.
Think VM, think docker.
At the moment I think I showed a lot of points that need to be taken into consideration when upgrading ANY software.