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Rewind - Rollback Failed Tableau Server Upgrade

Normally it's seen administrators are really good at making action plan for upgrades but when the things didn't turned up as planned, what needs to to be done? It's equally important to have a rollback plan and even test it so that action can be taken quickly and confidently in the case of any unwanted situation during the upgrades. In my last blogpost wrote about steps to perform tableau server upgrade from version 2019.2 to 2020.3.3 and this blogpost will cover steps to rollback in case of any failed upgrade. There are some assumptions before we go through the steps     1. Upgrade from version 2019.2 to 2020.3.3 failed on Linux.     2. Upgrade failed on tsm-upgrade command and we decided to reach to the point where the upgrade was started. In order to rollback your failed upgrade following steps needs to be followed, steps are truly based on my experience and would suggest you try this in lower environments first. There would be some customization in your environment, so