On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 11:31:14AM -0500, Dan Shoop wrote:
At 8:01 AM -0800 1/30/06, Jacob White wrote:
>Haaa! Good one.
>
>Rafael Marquez wrote:
>>Restore from your most recent 10.4.3 backup.
>>
>> On Monday, January 30, 2006, at 05:37AM, Tony Baker
>><email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hi !
>>>
>>>Due to an incompatibility issue with an application of our own I
>>>need to downgrade a server from 10.4.4 to 10.4.3
>>>
>>>what / Is there a procedure for doing this.
It's the correct answer.
So, that's one of the things that bugs me about OS X. There is no way
for managing packages.
You can manage packages. What we're talking about here is the whole OS.
And if you really wanted to, you could back them out, but I'd never
recommend it nor want to try it.
If I'm running Debian or FreeBSD, I can handle
this situation _without_ restoring from a previous backup. Hell, even MS
Windows supports this sort of thing.
There are numerous reasons why restoring from a backup may not
practical.
It's always the safest way ot back out of changes, on any platform.
Those aside, yes, in ideal world, it would be nice to have a
system snapshot before you make any serious system change. But, how do
you quantify "serious"?
If you don't understand that answer ask your Systems Manager.
So, lets move from an ideal world to a practical
one. The basic facts are, administrators sometimes forget things or make
poor decisions. There is a level of fault tolerance that makes a system
"usable".
Which is why sysadmins take out trash and systems managers plan how
to take out the trash.
--
-dhan
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