BACKUP & RECOVERY (COVERS WINDOWS, LINUX, UNIX & OS X)

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Backup & Recovery offers a comprehensive approach to the challenges you face in backing up your data. It provides hands-on, practical, straightforward instructions and advice for backing up and recovering vital systems—without resorting to commercial backup software. It covers every¬thing from basic Linux, Windows, and Mac OS workstations to complicated DB2, Oracle, and Sybase databases, and a lot of things in between. Backup & Recovery helps you develop a philosophy of backup and describes how to schedule backups for optimum effectiveness and coverage.Highlights include:Basic backup tools, including dump, tar, cpio, ditto, dd, ntbackup, and rsyncCoverage of open-source backup tools including Amanda, BackupPC, and BaculaHow to achieve near-continuous data protection using open-source toolsA step-by-step approach to bare-metal recovery of Windows, Linux, Mac OS, VMware,HP-UX, AIX, and Solaris systems (it’s not as hard as you think!) How to back up and recover Oracle, DB2, Sybase, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and Exchange, whether you’re a sysadmin or a DBACriteria for evaluating commercial solutions and for determining whether open-source solutions can meet your needsCriteria for evaluating all types of backup hardware, including tape, optical, and disk-based targets such as virtual tape libraries (VTLs)It’s not just about the tools: Backup & Recovery is full of practical lessons, tricks, and advice to help you solve backup and recovery problems of any size. Whether your budget barely stretches to cover the cost of the backup media or allows you to buy a silo bigger than your house, this book will help you formulate a practical backup and recovery strategy that meets your needs.

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sW. Curtis Preston has specialized in designing data protection systems since 1993, and has designed such systems for many environments, both large and small. His lively prose and wry, real-world approach has made him a popular author and speaker. Craig Hunt