Backup and recovery / W. Curtis Preston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Preston, W. Curtis.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Data protection.

Data recovery (Computer science).

Database management.

Electronic data processing--Backup processing alternatives.

Electronic data processing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (908 p.)

Edition:

1st edition

Other Title:

Backup & recovery

Place of Publication:

Beijing : O'Reilly, 2007.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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

Contents:

Part 1. Introduction. The philosophy of backup

Backing it all up

Part 2. Open-source backup utilities. Basic backup and recovery utilities

Amanda

BackupPC

Bacula

Open-source near-CDP

Part 3. Commercial backup. Commercial backup utilities

Backup hardware

Part 4. Bare-metal recovery. Solaris bare-metal recovery

Linux and Windows

HP-UX bare-metal recovery

AIX bare-metal recovery

Mac OS X bare-metal recovery

Part 5. Database backup. Backing up databases

Oracle backup and recovery

Sybase backup and recovery

IBM DB2 backup and recovery

SQL server

Exchange

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Part 6. Potpourri. VMware and miscellanea

It's all about data protection.

Notes:

"Covers Windows, Linux, Unix, and OS X"--Cover.

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780596520380

0596520387

9780596555047

0596555040

OCLC:

808807964