This manual covers the "Backup & Recovery: Inexpensive Backup Solutions for Open Systems" by W. Curtis Preston, published by O'Reilly Media. This comprehensive guide, released on February 9, 2009, focuses on providing practical, freely available backup and recovery solutions for various operating systems, including Unix, Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X, as well as numerous databases. It is designed for environments of all sizes and budgets, aiming to ensure data protection without relying on expensive commercial products.
The purpose of this manual is to equip users with the knowledge to implement robust data protection strategies. It details fundamental backup utilities, explores open-source backup products for automation, and explains bare-metal recovery procedures for popular operating systems. Furthermore, it provides an overview of the commercial backup software and hardware market, including technologies like CDP and data de-duplication, and guides users on automating database backups without commercial software. This resource is invaluable for system administrators, IT professionals, and anyone responsible for data integrity and recovery.
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, it covers how to automate the backups of DB2, Exchange, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL-Server, and Sybase databases - without purchasing a commercial backup product to do so.
For environments of all sizes and budgets, this unique book shows you how to ensure data protection without resorting to expensive commercial solutions. You will soon learn to:
- Automate the backup of popular databases without a commercial utility
- Perform bare metal recovery of any popular open systems platform, including your PC or laptop
- Utilize valuable but often unknown open source backup products
- Understand the state of commercial backup software, including explanations of CDP and data de-duplication software
- Access the current state of backup hardware, including Virtual Tape Libraries (VTLs)
Author: Preston, W. Curtis
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Illustration: N
Language: ENG
Title: Backup & Recovery: Inexpensive Backup Solutions for Open Systems
Pages: 00768 (Unencrypted EPUB)
On Sale: 2009-02-09
SKU-13/ISBN: 9780596102463
Category: Computers : System Administration - Storage & Retrieval
Category: Computers : Hardware - Personal Computers - General
Category: Computers : General
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, it covers how to automate the backups of DB2, Exchange, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL-Server, and Sybase databases - without purchasing a commercial backup product to do so.
For environments of all sizes and budgets, this unique book shows you how to ensure data protection without resorting to expensive commercial solutions. You will soon learn to:
- Automate the backup of popular databases without a commercial utility
- Perform bare metal recovery of any popular open systems platform, including your PC or laptop
- Utilize valuable but often unknown open source backup products
- Understand the state of commercial backup software, including explanations of CDP and data de-duplication software
- Access the current state of backup hardware, including Virtual Tape Libraries (VTLs)
Author: Preston, W. Curtis
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Illustration: N
Language: ENG
Title: Backup & Recovery: Inexpensive Backup Solutions for Open Systems
Pages: 00768 (Unencrypted EPUB)
On Sale: 2009-02-09
SKU-13/ISBN: 9780596102463
Category: Computers : System Administration - Storage & Retrieval
Category: Computers : Hardware - Personal Computers - General
Category: Computers : General
