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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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) Zusammenfassung Offers an overview of backup philosophy and design, including the basic backup utilities of tar, dump, cpio, ntbackup, ditto, and rsync. This title explains several open source backup products that automate backups using those utilities, including AMANDA, Bacula, BackupPC, rdiff-backup, and rsnapshot. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; I Wish I'd Had This Book; How This Book Is Organized; What's New in This Book; What's Missing?; Speaking of BackupCentral.com; Conventions Used in This Book; How to Contact Us; Safari® Enabled; This Book Was a Team Effort;Part 1: Introduction; Chapter 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; Chapter 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 2: Open-Source Backup Utilities; Chapter 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; Chapter 4: Amanda; Summary of Important Feature...
