Backup & Recovery: Inexpensive Backup Solutions for Open Systems - page 1
- Backup Recovery
- Backup Recovery
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Preface
- Part 1: Introduction
- Chapter 1. The Philosophy of Backup
- Section 1.1. Champagne Backup on a Beer Budget
- Section 1.2. Why Should I Read This Book?
- Section 1.3. Why Back Up?
- Section 1.4. Wax On, Wax Off: Finding a Balance
- Chapter 2. Backing It All Up
- Section 2.1. Don t Skip This Chapter
- Section 2.2. Deciding Why You Are Backing Up
- Section 2.3. Deciding What to Back Up
- Section 2.4. Deciding When to Back Up
- Section 2.5. Deciding How to Back Up
- Section 2.6. Storing Your Backups
- Section 2.7. Testing Your Backups
- Section 2.8. Monitoring Your Backups
- Section 2.9. Following Proper Development Procedures
- Section 2.10. Unrelated Miscellanea
- Section 2.11. Good Luck
- Part 2: Open-Source Backup Utilities
- Chapter 3. Basic Backup and Recovery Utilities
- Section 3.1. An Overview
- Section 3.2. Backing Up and Restoring with ntbackup
- Section 3.3. Using System Restore in Windows
- Section 3.4. Backing Up with the dump Utility
- Section 3.5. Restoring with the restore Utility
- Section 3.6. Limitations of dump and restore
- Section 3.7. Features to Check For
- Section 3.8. Backing Up and Restoring with the cpio Utility
- Section 3.9. Backing Up and Restoring with the tar Utility
- Section 3.10. Backing Up and Restoring with the dd Utility
- Section 3.11. Using rsync
- Section 3.12. Backing Up and Restoring with the ditto Utility
- Section 3.13. Comparing tar, cpio, and dump
- Section 3.14. Using ssh or rsh as a Conduit Between Systems
- Chapter 4. Amanda
- Section 4.1. Summary of Important Features
- Section 4.2. Configuring Amanda
- Section 4.3. Backing Up Clients via NFS or Samba
- Section 4.4. Amanda Recovery
- Section 4.5. Community and Support Options
- Section 4.6. Future Plans
- Chapter 5. BackupPC
- Section 5.1. BackupPC Features
- Section 5.2. How BackupPC Works
- Section 5.3. Installation How-To
- Section 5.4. Starting BackupPC
- Section 5.5. Per-Client Configuration
- Section 5.6. The BackupPC Community
- Section 5.7. The Future of BackupPC
- Chapter 6. Bacula
- Section 6.1. Bacula Architecture
- Section 6.2. Bacula Features
- Section 6.3. An Example Configuration
- Section 6.4. Advanced Features
- Section 6.5. Future Directions
- Chapter 7. Open-Source Near-CDP
- Section 7.1. rsync with Snapshots
- Section 7.2. rsnapshot
- Section 7.3. rdiff-backup
- Part 3: Commercial Backup
- Chapter 8. Commercial Backup Utilities
- Section 8.1. What to Look For
- Section 8.2. Full Support of Your Platforms
- Section 8.3. Backup of Raw Partitions
- Section 8.4. Backup of Very Large Filesystems and Files
- Section 8.5. Aggressive Requirements
- Section 8.6. Simultaneous Backup of Many Clients to One Drive
- Section 8.7. Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape Backup
- Section 8.8. Simultaneous Backup of One Client to Many Drives
- Section 8.9. Data Requiring Special Treatment
- Section 8.10. Storage Management Features
- Section 8.11. Reduction in Network Traffic
- Section 8.12. Support of a Standard or Custom Backup Format
- Section 8.13. Ease of Administration
- Section 8.14. Security
