Apparatus and method for incremental package deployment

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 disk memory;
• 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;
• and
• rebooting in response to a received command to perform disk recovery according to the mapping table.

An article of manufacture comprising a machine-accessible medium having associated data, when accessed, results in a machine to perform operations, comprising:

• interrupting at least one write operation issued by an operating system;
• redirecting the write operation from a destination block of disk memory to a redirected unused block of disk memory to preserve the contents of disk memory;
• recording addresses of the destination block and the redirected block of disk memory;
• and
• rebooting in response to a received command to perform disk recovery according to the redirected write operation.

An article of manufacture comprising a machine-accessible medium having associated data, when accessed, results in a machine to perform operations, comprising:

• detecting a data structure including at least one entry of a detected disk I/O write request redirected to an unused block of disk memory to preserve the contents of disk memory;
• updating disk memory to commit the detected I/O write requests listed in the detected data structure to disk memory;
• generating an incremental package according to the detected data structure;
• and
• transmitting the incremental package to a server computer to deploy the incremental package to at least one client computer.