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rpm rollback ignoring rpms - no error output

Issue rpm rollback is not working with a set of repackaged rpms created in the last couple days, but does work with more recent ones. [root@host1 repackage]# ls -l zsh-4.2.6-* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1788283 Apr 10 2011…
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CentOS, revert back to a clean state (by backup or snapshot) without physically going to the server

I am running CentOS 8 and I would like to rollback to a point in time (backup or snapshot), but without having to boot from USB. Many tools permit this on Windows (e.g. Macrium Reflect) and I would very much like similar on Linux. Why this is…
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grwoing raid 6 using mdadm failed - how to undo?

so I have a raid 6 array in my server. Until yesterday, it comprised 11 devices each the size of 1TB. These devices have been running in a raid 6 array. Yesterday i tried to extend the array: Added new device (being /dev/sdb), partitioned (resulting…
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How to recover a degraded MongoDB sharded cluster?

I've had problems with a MongoDB replica set of my sharded cluster. The current status of the nodes is: node1: primary (but apparently vetoed by node3 that needs to sync) node2: rollback (it was the primary before) node3: can't sync node4: delayed…
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Is there a way to roll back inside a SQL Server 2012 stored procedure?

In a stored procedure, several "update" sql statements are being called. If any of them fails, I want to roll back the previously executed update statements in the same stored procedure. Is there a way?
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Uninstalling .Net 4.5

I have a question. Server is running Windows Server 2008 R2. Originally had Microsoft .Net4.0 installed on it and I had to upgrade it to 4.5. Now due to some issues I have to uninstall it. My question is, if I will uninstall 4.5 would it…
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Very fast virtual machine rollback

Summary: Is there a VM that's optimized for fast in-memory rollback to a previous state? I've tried in vain on StackOverflow and SuperUser — maybe this is the right place to ask this question. :) I'm looking for the fastest way to rollback a virtual…
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Files being rolled back on server 2008 R2

I've got a weird situation occurring on my dev server. Randomly, and for no reason that I can see, files are being rolled back to an earlier version! This has happened twice now - the first time I assumed I'd done something wrong somewhere, restored…
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secure rollback of updates

I'm again and again wondering why there isn't (or did I just not find it?) any tool which can reliably and effortlessly rollback changes done by updates. Let me take an update with apt on Debian as example. There's this new package and there are the…
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WinSCP - can it replace newer files with older files?

I've been using the Windows app WinSCP for uploading the latest scripts in my PHP web app to my web server, using the comparison function within WinSCP which replaces older remote files with newer local files. But, if I made a mistake and wished to…
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How can you give priority to a kill/rollback process under SQL server that appears to have a status 'sleeping'?

While trying to update a table definition (change a field type from NVARCHAR(5) to NVARCHAR(8)) we caused a lock on the database. There were a large number of rows (>11,000,000) so we decided to kill the process and roll back the update. During the…
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Correct procedure for preventing a spid from rolling back

Today I had a situation where I wanted to cancel an update to a table and several indexes and immediately restore back the database from a backup. I issued a kill command to kill the updating SPID. I then issued a kill with statusonly and there was…
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Deep Freeze for Linux. Reverting server to a previous state, kind of a "snapshot" being a physical machine (not a VM)

I work in an enviroment with a lot of Linux Servers and a few Windows servers. When we perfom some changes in the Windows ones it is very easy to go back to the original state using "Deep Freeze" software. In the Linux servers if it is a VM we have…
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Rollback Yum machine to historical state, ignoring "obsoletes"

I have a large number of stateful servers that use Yum for package management. I am interested in a general automatic process for rolling them back to a historical state. Usually, enabling the correct repo and using distro-sync would be sufficient,…
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