Can I revert my MIDAS system to an earlier version?

If you run a self-hosted edition of MIDAS on your own server, and take regular server backups, then you can of course roll your server back to an earlier point in time & restore from your own server backups taken when you were running a previous version of MIDAS.

Whilst we are unable to offer support for such downgrades, it's important to remember that you'd need to restore both the database AND physical files that make up your MIDAS booking system. Restoring one of these components without the other lead to issues. Also, please be mindful that restoring your database to an earlier point in time will result in data loss. Any changes that had been made (i.e. to bookings) since the backup was taken will be lost.

But, if you're at a stage where you want to revert your MIDAS system to an earlier version, then something has probably gone wrong!

It's worth noting that if you run a self-hosted edition of MIDAS, then your license permits you to also install a separate "test" instance of MIDAS in addition to your "live" system. We'd strongly encourage you to take advantage of this!

Running a completely separate "test" booking system will mean that you can update, check, and test newer versions of MIDAS within your "test" system before updating your "live" system.

If you're not running a self-hosted edition, and are instead subscribed to out cloud-hosted option, then you won't have access to a separate "test" instance. However, if you encounter any issue after we automatically update you to a newer version of our software, please do reach out to us! We take regular backups of all hosted customer's databases and we're very responsive when it comes to fixing bugs!

Finally, regardless of which edition of our software you're using; if you've simply made a change in your booking system that you wish to "undo" then you can restore deleted bookings, or even selectively restore your database back to an earlier point in time.