Patent ID: 7613875

Claim:
An article of manufacture comprising a machine-accessible medium having associated data, when accessed, result in a machine to perform operations, comprising: detecting at least one I/O write request issued to a destination block of disk memory; redirecting the detected disk I/O write request from the destination block of disk memory to a selected redirected block of disk memory, wherein the detected write request is redirected to preserve the contents of the disk memory of a first client computer; generating an entry in a mapping table, including an address of the destination block of disk memory and an address of the redirected block of disk memory to form an incremental software distribution package including the mapping table and the content of the selected, redirected blocks of the disk memory; committing the contents of the selected, redirected blocks of the disk memory to the corresponding destination blocks of the disk memory according to the mapping table following reboot of the first client computer in response to a received command to perform disk recovery according to the incremental software distribution package; and deploying the incremental software distribution package to at least one second client computer different from the first client computer.