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From: David Kirchner <dpk@dpk.net>
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Subject: Re: Release engineering confusion
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On 11/16/05, Steve Bertrand <iaccounts@ibctech.ca> wrote:
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dpkirchner@gmail.com [mailto:dpkirchner@gmail.com] On
> > Behalf Of David Kirchner

D'oh. I had no idea my From header looked like that. Another gmail frustrat=
ion.

> I do only have a handful of servers, however thousands of users, and
> indeed, I do have backups. The problem arises in a criticality that >20
> minutes of downtime would lead to a severe problem....which brings up
> another good question...how do YOU revert back to a previous release? If
> you manage so many servers, I'd love to know what type of routine you'd
> use to revert back (and so would many others I'd think ;)

Depending on how serious the problem is we may restore the changed
files from backups or cvsup to the date just before when the
-RELEASE-pNN tag was set.