[CentOS] 'yum update' rollback or .. ?

Hello, we have several physical servers (CentOS 5.*) with rather critical applications where (because of stability) we don't do regularly 'yum update'. In virtualized environemnts (under Vmware) we do a snapshot, then 'yum update', reboot and if something is wrong we rollback the snapshot. On

Re: [CentOS] 'yum update' rollback or .. ?

On 06/22/2012 09:42 AM, przemol...@poczta.fm wrote: Hello, we have several physical servers (CentOS 5.*) with rather critical applications where (because of stability) we don't do regularly 'yum update'. In virtualized environemnts (under Vmware) we do a snapshot, then 'yum update', reboot

Re: [CentOS] 'yum update' rollback or .. ?

On 22/6/2012 2:06 μμ, Theo Band wrote: What is your best practise regarding rollbacking 'yum update' on physical servers ? Assuming that you have problems due to a particular newly-installed package, you can downgrade: rpm -Uvh --oldpackage package-2.4.0-1.el5.x86_64.rpm or: yum downgrade

Re: [CentOS] 'yum update' rollback or .. ?

On 06/22/2012 01:58 PM, Nikolaos Milas wrote: I am interested on other solutions too, so your thread is interesting! dump Assuming some form of ext[n] filesystem is being used. It has the advantage that is also works with incremental backups. You can dump the root file system and perhaps also