November 1999
Intermediate to advanced
736 pages
22h 46m
English
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How This Book is Organized
This book is divided into six parts:
This part of this book contains just enough information to whet your backup and recovery appetite.
Chapter 1 contains the six steps that you must go through to create and maintain a disaster recovery plan, one part of which will be a good backup and recovery system.
Chapter 2 goes into detail about the essential elements of a good backup and recovery system.
This section covers the freely available utilities that you can use to back up your systems if you can’t afford a commercial backup package.
Chapter 3 covers Unix’s native backup and recovery utilities in detail, including dump, tar, GNU tar, cpio, GNU cpio, and dd.
Chapter 4 starts with some simple tools to assist you in your backups, and contains a complete overview of the popular AMANDA utility, which is used to back up many small to medium-sized Unix installations around the world.
If you have outgrown the capabilities of free utilities, or would just like to take advantage of new backup and recovery technologies, you’ll need to look at a commercial product.
Chapter 5 is your guide to the hundreds of features available in the over 50 commercial backup products available on the market today, allowing you to make an educated purchase decision.
Chapter 6 details how, when backups just aren’t fast enough, a high availability system is designed to keep you from ever needing to use your backups.
A bare-metal recovery is the fastest ...
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