remove patches

[Ahmed_58]

Hi,
I'm plannin to apply patches using HP CD "support plus" and patches require for Oracle 9i istallation/migration of an appl. on live server HP-UX 11.0 64Bit, incase we need to revert back is it save to just remove the whole bandle?
PS. I'll do a full backup before appling patches.

regards,
Ahmed

[Steven E. Protter · Accepted solution]

Shalom Ahmed,

The easiest thing to do is to do a make_tape_recovery or a make_net_recvoery of vg00.

If the patch needs to be backed out, you boot, restore vg00 and are done.

If the patch set name is QPK011 in swlist -l product | more listing then here is the backout command.

swremove QPK011

Taking out large patch sets can be problematic, so I usually prefer to recover the system from tape. Its good practice for DR.

SEP

[Ahmed_58]

Shalom Steven,
Yes it is large number of patches....
any specific directory/file can be restore to revert back and I'll be safe.

Ahmed