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Backup & Recovery: Inexpensive Backup Solutions for Open Systems Paperback - 2007 - 1st Edition

by W. Curtis Preston

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Packed with practical, affordable backup and recovery solutions for UNIX, Linux, Windows, and the Mac OS X system--as well as various databases--this new guide is a complete overhaul of the author's strong-selling "UNIX Backup & Recovery," now revised and expanded with over 40 percent new material.

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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)

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  • Title Backup & Recovery: Inexpensive Backup Solutions for Open Systems
  • Author W. Curtis Preston
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 758
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher O'Reilly Media
  • Publication date 2007-02-06
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780596102463 / 0596102461
  • Weight 2.35 lbs (1.07 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.2 x 7 x 1.4 in (23.37 x 17.78 x 3.56 cm)
  • Category Computers - Data Base Management
  • Library of Congress subjects Data recovery (Computer science), Electronic data processing - Backup
  • Dewey Decimal Code 005.86

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  • Scitech Book News, 03/01/2007, Page 24

About the author

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.

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