Packed with practical, freely available backup and recovery solutions for Unix, Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X systems — as well as various databases — this new guide is a complete overhaul of “Unix Backup & Recovery” by the same author, now revised and expanded with over 75% new material. “Backup & Recovery” starts with a complete overview of backup philosophy and design, including the basic backup utilities of tar, dump, cpio, ntbackup, ditto, and rsync. It then explains several open source backup products that automate backups using those utilities, including AMANDA, Bacula, BackupPC, rdiff-backup, and rsnapshot. “Backup & Recovery” then explains how to perform bare metal recovery of AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Mac OS, Solaris, VMWare, & Windows systems using freely-available utilities. The book also provides overviews of the current state of the commercial backup software and hardware market, including overviews of CDP, Data De-duplication, D2D2T, and VTL technology. Finally, (more…)
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I have learned so much
I am a programmer by trade, but don’t have much experience with the server management side of IT. I have had scares with backups for my home PCs.
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Conceptually Strong Working Examples – Review of Database Administrator SQLAuthority.com
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This book’s does not only teaches you have to create safe backup but it takes you to the next level where a large organization can save tons of dollars a year…
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Very limited viewpoint!
I have used many backup utilities in linux, Unix, Windows, and found this book to be only a very basic view of the backup, DR realm.
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An excellent reference
In the realm of important things in the world of computers are good backups and equally important is the ability to properly restore those backups.
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These are basic references any serious computer collection needs.
W. Curtis Preston’s BACKUP & RECOVERY offers solid hands-on keys to backing up data and recovering from a systems crash – all without using commercial software.
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Backup, backup, backup!
Backup and Recovery
If you ever are faced with a technical problem in your IT career, turn to O’Reilly publications and pick a book on the topic.
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Relevant information for backup and recovery
The book is pretty well rounded and has overviews of different backup and recovery practices in addition to diving into the nuts and bolts of specific methods.