Backup & Recovery: Inexpensive
Backup Solutions for Open Systems
by W. Curtis Preston
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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 ofbackup hardware, including
Virtual Tape Libraries (VTLs)
Personal Review: Backup & Recovery: Inexpensive Backup
Solutions for Open Systems by W. Curtis Preston
Short Summary:
This book's does not only teaches you have to create safe backup but it
takes you to the next level where a large organization can save tons of
dollars a year by making their backup and restore faster and more reliable
process.
Detail Summary:
Backup and Recovery is the most interesting subject to me. I have always
enjoyed reading and writing about this subject. I personally believe that
without proper backup and ability to restore the backup to recover the
system to original state, any organization is at great risk. Biggest change in
the recent industry has been the proliferation of Windows, Exchange and
SQL Server.
This book is aimed at the people who feel that the commercial software
precuts aren't meeting all their needs. Almost everything which is
discussed in this book is either included with operating system or
application. This book vastly covers the tools which are open-source
projects. This book covers how to back up and recover everything from a
basic Linux, Windows, or Max OS workstation to a complicated DB2,
Oracle, Sybase or SQL Server (my favorite) databases as well many other
things.
This book suggests tools which are less than $100 or in most of the cases
almost free. This book is for every developer or system administrator. This
book tells users how exactly to choose which backup tool is best. This
book stays away from ever changing product names. It focuses on
concepts only - what a novel approach! I appreciate author for the same.
This book focuses on two people mainly - Database Administrators (DBA)
and System Administrator (SA). Concepts for both the roles are explained
in detail in this book. In author's own word "I explained the backup utilities
in plain language so that any DBA can understand them, and I explain
database architecture in such a way that an SA, even one who has never
before seen a database, can understand it."

A book on Backup and Recovery are incomplete without discussing Bare-
Metal Recovery. When operating system disk is lost and it is needed to
recovered, it is called Bare-Metal Recovery. Out of hundreds of way to
recover, this book focuses on best ways for Bare-Metal Recovery.
Working as SQL Server Principal Database Administrator, I have been
involved with Database Backup since day one. In several years of my
career, I have seen many large organizations ignoring backup of master
database. I was very glad when I see in just three lines author has
conveyed clear message about master database. These three lines
explain the understanding of author for SQL Server.
"It is extremely important to backup the master database on regular basis.
This database holds all the configuration information for the running
system as well as all the configuration information for all databases and
other information such as logon accounts. Without this database, the rest
of the system is useless!"
Rating: 4 and 1/2 stars
In Summary, Backup and Recovery is not everything. This book takes you
to highest level of the backup and recovery at conceptually strong working
examples.
Pinal Dave
Principal Database Administrator
(blog.sqlauthority.com)
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