how to roll back to old version

[wildhuman]

Hi guys,
when I compiled and made the source code for zimbra, I found an error about "wiki", so I suspected perhaps the new version source zimbra missed some files, I want to roll back old verison, how should I do?

[czaveri]

Hi guys,
when I compiled and made the source code for zimbra, I found an error about "wiki", so I suspected perhaps the new version source zimbra missed some files, I want to roll back old verison, how should I do?

I would be interested in knowing this, too. AFAIK, you can't roll back. You need to backup /opt/zimbra before you upgrade it.

This is how I backup:

rsync -avrlHKpogDt /opt/zimbra/ /opt/zimbra_synced

- Chintan.

P.S. I would not suggest this method for incremental backup because I am not sure that if you run the same command again, the symlinks would be maintained. This needs to be confirmed. The above command lets me preserve the permissions, and I run it after switching zimbra off.

In case the upgrade is spoilt, you only need to do this:

mv /opt/zimbra /opt/zimbra_temp
mv /opt/zimbra_synced /opt/zimbra

and after checking that all is fine.

rm -rf /opt/zimbra_temp