System and article of manufacture for system recovery

Details System and article of manufacture for system recovery System and article of manufacture for system recovery

2011-06-28

2011-06-28

Chu, Gabriel L (Department: 2114)

Error detection/correction and fault detection/recovery

Data processing system error or fault handling

Reliability and availability

C713S002000

Reexamination Certificate

active

07971096

ABSTRACT:
Provided are a system, and article of manufacture for system recovery. An operating system and a backup copy of the operating system are both maintained in a partition of a computational device. A boot loader receives an indication to load the backup copy of the operating system. The boot loader loads the backup copy of the operating system. The computational device is rebooted with the loaded backup copy of the operating system.

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