MECHANISM TO UPDATE SOFTWARE PACKAGES

• US 20150242282A1
• Filed: 02/24/2014
• Published: 08/27/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 02/24/2014
• Status: Active Application

• Current Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Red Hat, Inc. (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Inventors: Gallagher, Stephen
• Application Number:
  US14/188,481
• Publication Number:
  US 20150242282A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1433 during software upgrading
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1451 by selection of backup contents
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/1469 Backup restoration techniques

Abstract

A system and a method are disclosed, including in response to a request to upgrade software stored in a file system, creating, by a processing device, a first snapshot of a file system, responsive to receiving a rollback request, creating a second snapshot of the file system, and rolling back the file system using the first snapshot.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

creating, by a processing device, a first snapshot of a file system;

responsive to receiving a rollback request, creating a second snapshot of the file system; and

rolling back the file system using the first snapshot.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

in response to rolling back the file system, mounting the second snapshot to a file system directory;

restoring at least one file of the second snapshot from the file system directory.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

retrieving the at least one one file from the file directory.

4. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

deleting the file system directory.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the second snap shot is created responsive to a software upgrade.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the second snapshot contains one or more files of the file system.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the second snapshot contain differences from the first snapshot of the file system.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the first and second snapshots are stored in a backup storage device coupled to the file system.

9. An apparatus comprising:

a storage device to store a file system; and

a processing device communicably coupled to the storage device to;

create, by the processing device, a first snapshot of a file system;

responsive to receiving a rollback request, create a second snapshot of the file system; and

roll back the file system using the first snapshot.

10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the processing device is further to

responsive to rolling back the file system, mount the second snapshot to a file system directory;

restore at least one file of the second snapshot from the file system directory.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the processing device is further to retrieve the at least one one file from the file directory.

12. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the processing device is further to delete the file system directory.

13. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the second snap shot is created responsive to a software upgrade.

14. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the second snapshot contains one or more files of the file system.

15. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the second snapshot contain differences from the first snapshot of the file system.

16. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the first and second snapshots are stored in a backup storage device coupled to the file system.

17. A non-transitory computer readable storage medium including instructions that, when executed by a processing device, cause the processing device to perform operations comprising:

creating, by the processing device, a first snapshot of a file system;

responsive to receiving a rollback request, creating a second snapshot of the file system; and

rolling back the file system using the first snapshot.

18. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the operations further comprise:

responsive to rolling back the file system, mounting the second snapshot to a file system directory;

restore at least one file of the second snapshot from the file system directory.

19. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the second snap shot is created responsive to a software upgrade.

20. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 17, wherein the second snapshot contain differences from the first snapshot of the file system.