Review
“Absolutely the best book ever written about keeping your data secure.” — Cihan Cobanoglu, Ph.D., assistant professor of information technology, University of Delaware”An invaluable tool designed to help professionals keep their secured data available.” — Scott Petry, vice president of products and engineering, Postini, Inc.”It has been a joy reading your book. This will be my new go-to guide for backup and recovery.” — Wyatt Banks, security systems engineer, Pacific Northwest, Los Angeles”Reading this book will save you and your company a lot of money in disaster avoidance.” — Mitch Krayton, Digital Resources *1stKIOSK”The Backup Book is an invaluable tool designed to help professionals keep their secured data available.” — Scott Petry, vice-president of products and engineering, Postini, Inc.”This book is an essential reference for anyone interested in storage technology.” — Mark Hurlow, president, FWB Software”This book is one of the most important surviv (more…)
4.0 out of 5 stars
Important information for backup…but recovery techniques no-so good.
A big part of my job is to review these books for our professional clients. And I must admit that this is a good primer in that it clearly demonstrates pitfalls and techniques…
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great coverage, a bit outdated, little Linux information.
This book covers lot of information about IT disaster prevention and a bit of risk assessment. Backups are only a subtopic of the book.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Borrow and read, don’t buy
This book attempts a broad coverage of every aspect of preventing data loss and server downtime in the enterprise. Is it successful? Perhaps….
2.0 out of 5 stars
A for Effort, C for Implementation
This is a difficult book to rate. If you look at it compared to what else is out there on this subject, its 4 stars.
5.0 out of 5 stars
A recommended read for all technologists.
I really enjoyed this book. The information is accurate, up-to-date, and very helpful to anyone wanting to run a trouble-free technology department.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good, but bloated and a bit sophomoric.
This book would have been great if it was 60% of the pages with the fluff and jokes cut out. Backup is a serious subject, and a few jokes may be cute, but they pervade the book to…
5.0 out of 5 stars
This is a MUST have resource for IT professionals
If you are an IT professional and you are responsible for the security and integrity of data, you must have this book!
5.0 out of 5 stars
Everything you need to know about backups and then some
Dorian Cougias shows us with this book all aspects to be considered when planning or reviewing your Backup policies, in a deep yet sometimes funny, easy to understand plain…
4.0 out of 5 stars
everything you need for backup concepts
this book should be named Backup Bible because it covers everything. I give it 4 star because it covers too much basic concepts and stuff that people should already know before…
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent Backup Resource
An incredibly thorough, accurate and well thought-out reference guide written by the top talent in the industry.