Patent ID: 9679039
Date: 2017-06-13
CPC Classifications: G06F

Claim:
1. A method for performing rollback processing of a storage system, comprising: determining a prior state of the storage system for rollback; identifying a data point-in-time image of the storage system corresponding to the prior state; rolling back data of the storage system corresponding to the data point-in-time image; identifying a configuration metadata point-in-time image of the storage system corresponding to the prior state; attaching a first tag to the data point-in-time image and a second tag to the configuration metadata point-in-time image; and rolling back a configuration of the storage system corresponding to the configuration metadata point-in-time image, wherein the data point-in-time image and the configuration metadata point-in-time image are created independently of each other and wherein the first tag and the second tag are generated independently of each other.