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Question regarding best practices on rolling back to a previous version in case of emergency

Hello,

A customer is interested by IBM recommendations regarding rolling back scenario.
Here is the scenario:
1) Users move from machines to machines and have their data directory stored on a file server.
2) The clients are upgraded from 655 to 851FP1
3) The first time they start the 851 client, some local databases (desktop and bookmark for example) will be automatically converted by Notes from 655 format to 851 format.
4)In case some compatibility issue with a major application would have been undetected and the customer needs to roll back to 655 notes clients temporarily, the first time the 655 notes client will start it will try to convert back the system databases that were converted in step 3 to 855 format , back to 655 format again. Some data like the default home page in bookmarks are lost.

The customer would like to know if we have some best practice regarding this kind of emergency scenario during an upgrade. Is the restore of backup of the data directory the only supported way to roll back in case of problem during an upgrade ?

Thanks

Ben


Feedback response number WEBB83UNS2 created by ~Dean Opfoochekings on 03/24/2010

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