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 howto 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)

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: O'Reilly Media
• New ed.
• Seitenzahl: 758
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Februar 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 180mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 1062g
• 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