Downgrade 6.0 Standalone to 5.0
Before you attempt a downgrade, familiarize yourself with the content in this page.
Downgrade Path
If you need to downgrade from 6.0, downgrade to the latest patch release of 5.0.
MongoDB only supports single-version downgrades. You cannot downgrade to a release that is multiple versions behind your current release.
For example, you may downgrade a 6.0-series to a 5.0-series deployment. However, further downgrading that 5.0-series deployment to a 4.4-series deployment is not supported.
Access Control
If your deployment has access control enabled, your downgrade user
privileges must include privileges to list and manage indexes across
databases. A user with root
role has the required
privileges.
Prerequisites
Before you begin the downgrade procedure, you must complete the following prerequisite steps.
1. Create Backup
Optional but Recommended. Create a backup of your database.
To learn how to create a backup, see Backup Methods for a Self-Managed Deployment.
2. Remove Backward-Incompatible Features
To downgrade from 6.0 to 5.0, you must remove 6.0 features that are incompatible with 5.0. For a list of incompatible features and how to remove them, see Downgrade Considerations.
3. Downgrade Feature Compatibility Version (fCV)
To downgrade the featureCompatibilityVersion
of your standalone
instance:
Downgrade the
featureCompatibilityVersion
to"5.0"
.db.adminCommand( { setFeatureCompatibilityVersion: "5.0" } ) The
setFeatureCompatibilityVersion
command performs writes to an internal system collection and is idempotent. If the command does not complete successfully, retry the command on themongod
instance.
Downgrade Procedure
Warning
Before proceeding with the downgrade procedure, ensure that the prerequisites have been completed.
Update configuration files.
Disable any configurable 6.0 features by updating the
mongod
instance's configuration file before
restarting.
To see the list of configurable 6.0 features, review the 6.0 Release Notes.
Restart with the latest 5.0 mongod
instance.
To start a mongod
process, run the following command:
mongod --dbpath </path-to-data-folder>
To learn more about starting a mongod
process, see
Start mongod
Processes.