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is it possible to upgrading to lower versions during roll back? if not possible kindly help me for step by step procedure for rollback.

shivanandbm
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is it possible to upgrading to lower versions during roll back? if not possible kindly help me for step by step procedure for rollback.

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javiergn
Super Champion

Hi,

You can normally downgrade by simply running untar of an older version on top of a stopped splunk directory.
Take a backup first of course.

Then start splunk.

See the following links in case it helps as this has been discussed before:

https://answers.splunk.com/answers/610290/downgrade-splunk-from-701-to-652.html
https://answers.splunk.com/answers/232223/is-there-a-command-to-downgrade-from-splunk-versio.html

Thanks,
J

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javiergn
Super Champion

Hi,

You can normally downgrade by simply running untar of an older version on top of a stopped splunk directory.
Take a backup first of course.

Then start splunk.

See the following links in case it helps as this has been discussed before:

https://answers.splunk.com/answers/610290/downgrade-splunk-from-701-to-652.html
https://answers.splunk.com/answers/232223/is-there-a-command-to-downgrade-from-splunk-versio.html

Thanks,
J

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shivanandbm
Explorer

Thanks for you suggestion. i am bit confused i have red that splunk does not provide a means of downgrading to previous version . i tride with rpm it was not allowing me to install. please help me for downloading

rpm -Uvh splunk-7.0.3-fa31da744b51-linux-2.6-x86_64.rpm
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
package splunk-7.1.0-2e75b3406c5b.x86_64 (which is newer than splunk-7.0.3-fa31da744b51.x86_64) is already installed

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javiergn
Super Champion

Have you tried with:

rpm -Uvh --oldpackage splunk-7.0.3-fa31da744b51-linux-2.6-x86_64.rpm

highsplunker
Contributor

Works perfectly, thanks a lot

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shivanandbm
Explorer

Thanks Mr J.It helps alot.

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