How to downgrade Terraform major version in state file?

Asked Nov 06 '21 at 17:28

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I'm using Terraform and accidentally changed the version in the state file from v0.11.14 to v1.0.10 while playing around with upgrading Terraform.

Initializing the backend...

Error:
Terraform doesn't allow running any operations against a state
that was written by a future Terraform version. The state is
reporting it is written by Terraform '1.0.10'

A newer version of Terraform is required to make changes to the current
workspace.

The state file is stored in AWS storage and is decrypted.

I read about solutions between minor versions but couldn't find a solution for downgrading from a major version back to v0.11.14 :(

I was under the impression that terraform init won't touch the state file.

edited Feb 18 '23 at 03:11

Gino Mempin

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asked Nov 06 '21 at 17:28

Marc Robberts

I'm not aware of any way to downgrade, except to manually import all resources to old tf version. – Marcin Nov 06 '21 at 22:31
Hey @Marcin You mean manually updating the old state file? Not sure what you mean by "import". thx – Marc Robberts Nov 07 '21 at 00:06
Are you using S3 backend? If so and If you enabled versioning you can retrieve an old version? – Mohammed Almusaddar Nov 07 '21 at 06:24
Hi @MohammedYahya The previous people responsible for Terraform didn't enable versioning, why I enabled versioning AFTER the mistake haha. So no, otherwise I could have restored the working version :( – Marc Robberts Nov 07 '21 at 06:26
Then go for the upgrade, I'm adding an answer for that – Mohammed Almusaddar Nov 07 '21 at 06:47

How to downgrade Terraform major version in state file?

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