W. Curtis Preston

Backup & Recovery

Inexpensive Backup Solutions for Open Systems

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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)

Produktdetails

• Verlag: O'Reilly Media
• New ed.
• Seitenzahl: 758
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 180mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 1060g
• ISBN-13: 9780596102463
• ISBN-10: 0596102461
• Artikelnr.: 20829370

Autorenporträt

W. 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.

Inhaltsangabe

From the contents: Preface Part I. Introduction 1. The Philosophy of Backup Champagne Backup on a Beer Budget Why Should I Read This Book? Why Back Up? Wax On, Wax Off: Finding a Balance 2. Backing It All Up Don't Skip This Chapter! Deciding Why You Are Backing Up Deciding What to Back Up Deciding When to Back Up Deciding How to Back Up Storing Your Backups Testing Your Backups Monitoring Your Backups Following Proper Development Procedures Unrelated Miscellanea Good Luck Part II. Open-Source Backup Utilities 3. Basic Backup and Recovery Utilities An Overview Backing Up and Restoring with ntbackup Using System Restore in Windows Backing Up with the dump Utility Restoring with the restore Utility Limitations of dump and restore Features to Check For Backing Up and Restoring with the cpio Utility Backing Up and Restoring with the tar Utility Backing Up and Restoring with the dd Utility Using rsync Backing Up and Restoring with the ditto Utility Comparing tar, cpio, and dump Using ssh or rsh as a Conduit Between Systems 4. Amanda Summary of Important Features Configuring Amanda Backing Up Clients via NFS or Samba Amanda Recovery Community and Support Options Future Plans 5. BackupPC BackupPC Features How BackupPC Works Installation How-To Starting BackupPC Per-Client Configuration The BackupPC Community The Future of BackupPC 6. Bacula Bacula Architecture Bacula Features An Example Configuration Advanced Features Future Directions 7. Open-Source Near-CDP rsync with Snapshots rsnapshot rdiff-backup Part III. Commercial Backup 8. Commercial Backup Utilities What to Look For Full Support of Your Platforms Backup of Raw Partitions Backup of Very Large Filesystems and Files Aggressive Requirements Simultaneous Backup of Many Clients to One Drive Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape Backup Simultaneous Backup of One Client to Many Drives Data Requiring Special Treatment

Rezensionen

"Preston schafft es, das Thema Backup und Recovery spannend zu beschreiben. Mit vielen Tipps und witzigen Erlebnisses, die zum Großteil von Lesern seiner Website (www.backupcentral.com) eingesandt wurden. Trotzdem ist das Buch ernst gemeint und enthält Infos und handfeste Praxiserfahrungen bis zum Abwinken: anwendbare organisatorische und technische Möglichkeiten für die Sicherungsstrategie ohne sich auf ein kommerzielles Produkt zu beziehen. Preston nennt das 'Champagne Backup on a Beer Budget'. [...] Fazit: Wer sich jemals Gedanken über die Qualität seiner Backups gemacht hat und Daten nicht nur sichern, sondern auch wieder herstellen möchte, sollte sich mit dem Buch einen Tag lang in einer ungestörten Ecke einsperren." -- Elmar Török, www.searchstorage.de, August 2007