How to restore

[NumNum]

Fortunately I have never had to restore a site from an update, back to the previous version. So my question is, what is the best method of procedure for doing this?

[glennrocksvb]

Did you backup the database prior to upgrade?

[NumNum]

The answer is always, yes.

Just curious how to in the event I need to.

[glennrocksvb]

Just restore the backup to the db server.

[Mark.B]

I always do it on the command line, unless it's a really tiny forum and then I just import it using whatever web tool the client can give me, or adminer if they don't know what that even means, or can't provide one.

[NumNum]

I understand that part. What about the new script files sitting in the html directory? Do I reinstall the previous version and run the install script?

[glennrocksvb]

Yes. It would be nice to also back up the source files before upgrading to be able to restore them quickly. I always do that whenever I upgrade.

[NumNum]

So copy all those files to a _backup directory. Then if it goes bad I could delete the new files in the html directory and move the backup files back to it (after restoring the db)?

[glennrocksvb]

Yes !