Table of Contents | Backup & Recovery: Inexpensive Backup Solutions for Open Systems

Backup & Recovery
By W. Preston
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Publisher: O'Reilly
Pub Date: December 01, 2006
ISBN-10: 0-596-10246-1
ISBN-13: 978-0-596-10246-3
Pages: 800

Table of Contents | Index

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

Section 8.15. Ease of Recovery

Section 8.16. Protection of the Backup Index

Section 8.17. Robustness

Section 8.18. Automation

Section 8.19. Volume Verification

Section 8.20. Cost

Section 8.21. Vendor

Section 8.22. Final Thoughts

Chapter 9. Backup Hardware

Section 9.1. Decision Factors

Section 9.2. Using Backup Hardware

Section 9.3. Tape Drives

Section 9.4. Optical Drives

Section 9.5. Automated Backup Hardware

Section 9.6. Disk Targets

Part 4: Bare-Metal Recovery

Chapter 10. Solaris Bare-Metal Recovery

Section 10.1. Using Flash Archive

Section 10.2. Preparing for an Interactive Restore

Section 10.3. Setup of a Noninteractive Restore

Section 10.4. Final Thoughts

Chapter 11. Linux and Windows

Section 11.1. How It Works

Section 11.2. The Steps in Theory

Section 11.3. Assumptions

Section 11.4. Alt-Boot Full Image Method

Section 11.5. Alt-Boot Partition Image Method

Section 11.6. Live Method

Section 11.7. Alt-Boot Filesystem Method

Section 11.8. Automate Bare-Metal Recovery with G4L

Section 11.9. Commercial Solutions

Chapter 12. HP-UX Bare-Metal Recovery

Section 12.1. System Recovery with Ignite-UX

Section 12.2. Planning for Ignite-UX Archive Storage and Recovery

Section 12.3. Implementation Example

Section 12.4. System Cloning

Section 12.5. Security

Section 12.6. System Recovery and Disk Mirroring

Chapter 13. AIX Bare-Metal Recovery

Section 13.1. IBM's mksysb and savevg Utilities

Section 13.2. Backing Up with mksysb

Section 13.3. Setting Up NIM

Section 13.4. savevg Operations

Section 13.5. Verifying a mksysb or savevg Backup

Section 13.6. Restoring an AIX System with mksysb

Section 13.7. System Cloning

Chapter 14. Mac OS X Bare-Metal Recovery

Section 14.1. How It Works

Section 14.2. A Sample Bare-Metal Recovery

Part 5: Database Backup

Chapter 15. Backing Up Databases

Section 15.1. Can It Be Done?

Section 15.2. Confusion: The Mysteries of Database Architecture

Section 15.3. The Muck Stops Here: Databases in Plain English

Section 15.4. What's the Big Deal?

Section 15.5. Database Structure

Section 15.6. An Overview of a Page Change

Section 15.7. ACID Compliance

Section 15.8. What Can Happen to an RDBMS?

Section 15.9. Backing Up an RDBMS

Section 15.10. Restoring an RDBMS

Section 15.11. Documentation and Testing

Section 15.12. Unique Database Requirements

Chapter 16. Oracle Backup and Recovery

Section 16.1. Two Backup Methods

Section 16.2. Oracle Architecture

Section 16.3. Physical Backups Without rman

Section 16.4. Physical Backups with rman

Section 16.5. Flashback

Section 16.6. Managing the Archived Redo Logs

Section 16.7. Recovering Oracle

Section 16.8. Logical Backups

Section 16.9. A Broken Record

Chapter 17. Sybase Backup and Recovery

Section 17.1. Sybase Architecture

Section 17.2. The Power User's View

Section 17.3. The DBA's View

Section 17.4. Protecting Your Database

Section 17.5. Backup Automation Through Scripting

Section 17.6. Physical Backups with a Storage Manager

Section 17.7. Recovering Your Database

Section 17.8. Common Sybase Procedures

Section 17.9. Sybase Recovery Procedure

Chapter 18. IBM DB2 Backup and Recovery

Section 18.1. DB2 Architecture

Section 18.2. The backup, restore, rollforward, and recover Commands

Section 18.3. Recovering Your Database

Chapter 19. SQL Server

Section 19.1. Overview of SQL Server

Section 19.2. The Power User's View

Section 19.3. The DBA's View

Section 19.4. Backups

Section 19.5. Logical (Table-Level) Backups

Section 19.6. Restore and Recovery

Chapter 20. Exchange

Section 20.1. Exchange Architecture

Section 20.2. Storage Groups

Section 20.3. Backup

Section 20.4. Using ntbackup to Back Up

Section 20.5. Restore

Section 20.6. Exchange Restore

Chapter 21. PostgreSQL

Section 21.1. PostgreSQL Architecture

Section 21.2. Backup and Recovery

Section 21.3. Point-in-Time Recovery

Chapter 22. MySQL

Section 22.1. MySQL Architecture

Section 22.2. MySQL Backup and Recovery Methodologies

Part 6: Potpourri

Chapter 23. VMware and Miscellanea

Section 23.1. Backing Up VMware Servers

Section 23.2. Volatile Filesystems

Section 23.3. Demystifying dump

Section 23.4. How Do I Read This Volume?

Section 23.5. Gigabit Ethernet

Section 23.6. Disk Recovery Companies

Section 23.7. Yesterday

Section 23.8. Trust Me About the Backups

Chapter 24. It's All About Data Protection

Section 24.1. Business Reasons for Data Protection

Section 24.2. Technical Reasons for Data Protection

Section 24.3. Backup and Archive

Section 24.4. What Needs to Be Backed Up?

Section 24.5. What Needs to Be Archived?

Section 24.6. Examples of Backup and Archive

Section 24.7. Can Open-Source Backup Do the Job?

Section 24.8. Disaster Recovery

Section 24.9. Everything Starts with the Business

Section 24.10. Storage Security

Section 24.11. Conclusion

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Index