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)
