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Downgrade from Gutsy 7.10 to Feisty 7.04

Asked by Alexey

How to downgrade from Gutsy to Feisty with saving users data and programms settings?

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Christoph Langner (chrissss) said : 		#1

There's no possibilty to downgrade. You've got to reinstall Ubuntu Feisty. Save /etc and /home to keep your data save.

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Alexey (smartdesigner) said : 		#2

OK, thanks.

How should I save /etc and /home correctly if I want for owners and access right will also saved?

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Best marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#3

I think tar can keep your permission...

to create
sudo tar -cpvzf etc.tar.gz etc
sudo tar -cpvzf home.tar.gz home

to view without extract (you can view permission and owner.group)
sudo tar -tpvzf etc.tar.gz | less

to extract
mkdir etc.old
cp etc.tar.gz /etc.old/.
then
cd /etc.old
sudo tar -xpvzf etc.tar.gz
you will have /etc.old/etc dir structure

I think is not the best way to directly restore etc onto the /etc of the new installation, i usually restore single etc one by one and not all of them.

The first that i think of: ...you can have problem to mount your ext3 with UUID of disk into /etc/fstab

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Alexey (smartdesigner) said : 		#4

Thanks elart.it, that solved my question.

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jonjon09 (john-limpa) said : 		#5

couldn't you use instructions from that page to downgrade?
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DowngradeHowto