rollback

nounC1Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #15,174 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: rollbacks

A rollback is putting the previous version back after a bad release. Perform a rollback, a rollback plan, roll it back.

Having one ready before you deploy is the difference between a bad afternoon and a bad week. In databases it is precise, since a rollback undoes an incomplete transaction so the data is never left half changed.

Definitions of rollback

1nounrollbackPutting the previous version back after a bad release.C1
“When the new update crashed the website, the team did a rollback to last week's version.”

rollback is a reversal.

Where it comes from

From the phrase to roll back, with the noun coming first and the verb formed from it.

The noun is a a deverbal from roll back. The verb is a back-formation from the noun despite being redundant to roll back.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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rollback in the wild

In political science, rollback is the strategy of forcing a change in the major policies of a state, usually by replacing its ruling regime.
Rollback
Most of the discussions of rollback in the scholarly literature deal with United States foreign policy toward communist countries during the Cold War.
Rollback
In database technologies, a rollback is an operation which returns the database to some previous state.
Rollback (data management)
Anti-rollback dogs engage a rack (ratcheted track) alongside the chain to prevent the train from descending the lift hill.
Lift hill
A rollback occurs on a launched roller coaster when the train is not launched fast enough to reach the top of the tower or hill.
Rollback (roller coaster)

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