---
title: Reverting an update
description: After you've updated PingAuthorize Server, you can revert to the previous version (one level back) using the revert-update tool.
component: pingauthorize
version: 10.1
page_id: pingauthorize:upgrading_pingauthorize:paz_reverting_server_update
canonical_url: https://docs.pingidentity.com/pingauthorize/10.1/upgrading_pingauthorize/paz_reverting_server_update.html
revdate: August 14, 2023
section_ids:
  about-this-task: About this task
  steps: Steps
---

# Reverting an update

After you've updated PingAuthorize Server, you can revert to the previous version (one level back) using the `revert-update` tool.

## About this task

The `revert-update` tool accesses a log of file actions taken by the updater to put the file system back to its previous state. If you have run multiple updates, you can run the `revert-update` tool multiple times to sequentially revert to each prior update. You can only revert back one level at a time with the `revert-update` tool. For example, if you had to run the update twice since first installing PingAuthorize Server, you can run the `revert-update` tool to revert to its previous state, then run the `revert-update` tool again to return to its original state.

When starting the server for the first time after running a revert, the server displays warnings about "offline configuration changes," but these are not critical and will not appear during subsequent start-ups.

## Steps

* Run `revert-update` in the server root directory to revert back to the most recent previous version of the server, as shown in the following example:

  ```
  /opt/pingauthorize/{pingauthorize}/revert-update
  ```