 | | | how to do rollbacks easy and cheap | how to do rollbacks easy and cheap 2005-06-15 - By Dominic RIVERA
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The linux journal had a good article on this a couple of years ago,
you can configure your machine to rollback to a time period or just a
specific package.
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7034
It's not without problems, but can work well.
On 6/6/05, Dag Wieers <dag@(protected)> wrote:
> On Mon, 6 Jun 2005, John Reiser wrote:
>
> > > The problem is: Many of these servers are production servers and as
> > > part of my update procedure, I must provide for an "undo" or rollback
> > > procedure.
> >
> > One way to get base-level functionality for rollback
> > is by setting enableRollbacks=1 in /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date .
> > Of course you should "rpm --verify" beforehand, and collect the
> > rollback .rpms afterwards, etc.
>
> FFIW I don't think the RPM rollback mechanism is supported by Red Hat.
> Either on rpm-list or #rpm it was strongly discouraged using it.
>
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