roll-back-to-legacy-markets.md

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This section describes how to roll back to Lotus markets service process if you are not happy with boostd

Roll back to Lotus markets service process

{% hint style="warning" %} Before you begin migration from Lotus markets service process to Boost, make sure you have a backup of your Lotus repository, by following the Lotus documentation.

You can also do a full backup of the Lotus markets repository directory. {% endhint %}

1. If you haven't made any legacy deals with Boost:

   1. Stop boostd
   2. Run your lotus-miner markets service process as you previously did\

2. If you have made new legacy deals with Boost, and want to migrate them back:

   1. Stop boostd
   2. Copy the dagstore directory from boost repository to markets repository.
   3. Export Boost deals datastore keys/values:
      lotus-shed market export-datastore --repo <repo> --backup-dir <backup-dir>

Wrote backup file to <backup-dir>/markets.datastore.backup
   4. Import the exported deals datastore keys/values from boost to lotus markets:
      lotus-shed market import-datastore --repo <repo> --backup-path <backup-path>

Completed importing from backup file <backup-path>