We have Windows 2003&2008R2 Servers in our environment. Every time we patch our servers, we run into some issue or the other. Some times uninstalling patches does not help and we need to recover from a backup. We have seen that it takes a very long time to restore them from backup, there by causing huge application down times.
Is there a way we can circumvent this problem? Some thing like a recover point which can help roll back quickly to a previous state.
We have a mix of physical and virtual servers. Taking snapshots on hundreds of servers is not an option due to capacity constraints.
Pls advise.